Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Shanakill (Decies without Drum By., Rossduff Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanakill (Decies without Drum By., Rossduff Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberanashig
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar an Aisig
- Coordinates
- 52.17519, -7.38436
- SMR number
- WA024-028----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as Tobar an Aisig, possibly meaning the well of vomiting, on the 1840 and 1925 eds. of the OS 6-in map. Situated on a S-facing slope, this is a concrete-lined and slab-covered well. There is no evidence of, or record of, veneration.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload/revision: 6th May, 2011.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.