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-
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)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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)
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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.