Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Monastery, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monastery
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.19958, -6.17412
- SMR number
- WI003-031001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
To the S of the monastery site (WI003-031002-), a small spring now enclosed in a brick and cement trough, may be the well marked on the map. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 3) mention that the well was visited for headache cures.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.