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Ritual site - holy well

Loughdeheen, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Loughdeheen, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Loughdeheen
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.20341, -7.24393
SMR number
WA016-059004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. There is a holy well c. 50m S of the structure (WA016-059001-) within ecclesiastical enclosure (WA016-059002-). This is an overgrown hollow with rock outcrop immediately to its E, and the beginning of a stream from it is lintelled. (Power 1952, 373)

Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Date of upload/revision: 21st December 2010.

References

Power, P. 1952 The placenames of the Decies (second ed.). Cork University Press.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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