Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballylane, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylane
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernamnarialta
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar na mBan Riaghalta
- Coordinates
- 51.97245, -7.74463
- SMR number
- WA038-035----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 head of a flat-bottomed N-S valley, with an E-W stream c. 40m to the S. This is a natural spring, now overgrown, where a pattern was formerly held on August 15th, according to J. O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1929, 79). It is not frequented 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.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 10th October, 2011
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.