Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Churchquarter (coshmore And Coshbride By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchquarter (coshmore And Coshbride By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Well of the Holy Cross
- Coordinates
- 52.06824, -7.95002
- SMR number
- WA033-005----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated towards the bottom of a steep E-facing slope of Kilwatermoy Mountain, with the N-S stream in Moorhill Glen c. 250m to the E. The well is on the NW side of a SW-NE road. It is a rectangular drystone built hollow covered by two lintels and with a small opening (Wth 0.53m; H c. 0.2m) at E. It is still venerated and a penitential cairn (WA033-005001-) (dims. 1.6m x 1.3m; H 0.4m) of quartz stones covers the lintels and supports a metal cross. A pattern was held on the 14th of September in honour of the Holy Cross in the early 19th century, according to John O'Donovan (O'Flanagan, 1929, 72).
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 September 2011
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. 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. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.