Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Carrigroe (coshmore And Coshbride By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigroe (coshmore And Coshbride By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06824, -7.95002
- SMR number
- WA033-005001-
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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
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. The holy well (WA033-005----) is covered by a penitential cairn (dims. 1.6m x 1.3m; H 0.4m) of quartz stones, which supports a metal cross.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 September 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 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.