Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilcolman, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcolman
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar Cholmain
- Coordinates
- 51.98855, -7.68311
- SMR number
- WA038-020003-
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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 on a plateau on a gentle S-facing slope. Tober Cholmain holy well was beside a sacred tree (WA038-020005-) (Fitzgerald 1856-7, 40-43) at Kilcolman church site (WA038-020002-). It is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 19th August, 2010.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.