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Ritual site - holy well

Ballinaspick North, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Ballinaspick North, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballinaspick North
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Tobar na Glóire
Coordinates
52.11644, -7.93904
SMR number
WA029-001----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located in a coniferous forest at the bottom of a N-facing slope. It is marked only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is a natural spring which has eroded a deep channel (Wth c. 1m; max. D c. 5m) into the steep slope, and it is overlooked at S by a deciduous tree with an iron cross embedded in it. A small triangular cairn (WA029-001001-) (dims. 2m x 3m; H 0.9m), perhaps a penitential cairn, is located just to the W of the channel.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Revised by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 26 July 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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