Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
An Móta, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Móta
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Nicholas Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Nicholas Well
- Coordinates
- 52.04926, -7.58356
- SMR number
- WA036-007----
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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
Described as St Nicholas' Well on the 1840 and 1926 eds of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated on the S bank of a wide and deep W-E stream, c. 70m W of where the stream meets a larger S-N stream. The well had been surrounded by a wall until 1841 when it was swept away in a torrent, according to J. O' Donovan (O'Flanagan 1929, 45). A pattern had been held at the well on December 6th until c. 1830 when it was abolished, but the well was still venerated at the end of the century (Power 1898, 200). No evidence of a well survives now.
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.
Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219.
Date of upload: 6th October, 2011
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.