Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Loughdeheen, County Waterford, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.