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Ritual site - holy well

Kill St. Nicholas, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Kill St. Nicholas, 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
Kill St. Nicholas
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
St Nicholas Well
Latest-edition OS map
St Nicholas Well
Coordinates
52.23263, -7.00759
SMR number
WA018-007003-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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 top of the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge. The parish church of Kill St Nicholas (WA018-007001-) and its graveyard (WA018-007002-) are associated with the site of St Nicholas' Well is c. 15m to SW, and evident as a concrete-lined hollow, now overgrown. (Power 1890-91, 481)

Power, Rev. P. (1890-91) The ancient ruined churches of Co. Warterford. JRSAI 20-21, 475-82.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 08 February 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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