Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballinaspick North, County Waterford, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.