Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilmacomb, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacomb
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. John the Baptists Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 52.18337, -7.01635
- SMR number
- WA027-006004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. The holy well of St John the Baptist, a natural spring, is c. 50m to the NW of the parish church of Kilmacomb (WA027-006001-). J. O'Donovan, writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1929, 7-8), thought that it was dedicated to St. John the Baptist, but Power (1890-91) thought that it was dedicated to St. Mathew as the pattern was held on the 21st September.
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.
Power, Rev. P. (1890-91) The ancient ruined churches of Co. Warterford. JRSAI 20-21, 475-82.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 31 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.