Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Camphire Hill, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Camphire Hill
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar a Turais
- Coordinates
- 52.09372, -7.87595
- SMR number
- WA029-032----
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)
- 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the bottom of a S-facing slope, and marked only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It was known as Tobar an Turais - the well of the journey, and may have been associated with the church of Okyle (WA029-030----), c. 700m to the SW. It is not visible at ground level. (Power 1898a, 218)
Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 August 2011
References
Power, Rev. P. 1898a Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 4, 83-95, 195-219.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.