Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kill St. Nicholas, County Waterford, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.