Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballyristeen, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyristeen
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15743, -7.36077
- SMR number
- WA025-125----
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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 on a steep W-facing slope of the N-S valley of the Ballyristeen stream, with the stream c. 100m to the W. The well was known as O'Bric's Well (Power 1896, 200) and it is located c. 400m SSE of Monksland church (WA024-036001-) in Ballynagigla. The well has been modernised with a concrete surround and roof and there is no evidence of veneration, but it is known locally to have had seven cures.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 20th May, 2011.
References
Power, Rev. P. 1896 The ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 2, 2-15, 195-208.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.