Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killegar, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killegar
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church Well
- Coordinates
- 53.21268, -6.17907
- SMR number
- WI003-010----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a marked E-facing slope overlooking the very steep W side of the Scalp. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 2) state that there was a local memory of a pattern at the well, and that there was an 'ancient thorn' growing over it. No visible remains.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.