Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Crooke, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crooke
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Johns Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Johns Well
- Coordinates
- 52.22791, -6.97906
- SMR number
- WA018-023004-
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 on a SW-facing slope, c. 15m SE of the graveyard (WA018-023003-). The well was described by J. O'Donovan c. 1840 as covered and it had a pointed doorway at S. Patterns were held there on the 24th of June until c. 1800 (O'Flanagan 1929, 5). It is now a pool (diam. c. 3m), with evidence of a grass-covered stoney perimeter W-E. There are also two stones with chamfered edges, while a third is from the curved arch of a doorway, cofirming O'Donovan's description. The tower house (WA018-023002-) is c. 50m to the S.
O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray.
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 22/1976).
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Knights Hospitallersunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.