Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilcroney, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcroney
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WI007-082----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated well in the townland of Kilcroney. Lynch (1994, 642) recorded that there is a holy well known as ‘St Croney’s Well’ in the townland of Kilcroney that is mentioned in the 1930s Irish Folklore Commission, Schools Manuscript Collection (IFC S 913: 36; IFC S 468: 69). In 1838 the Ordnance Survey Letters recorded that ‘about sixty yards east of the church (WI007-030----) is a small well covered with briars and thorns, supposed to be Saint Croney’s Well, but it retains no character for sanctity in the neighbourhood’ (Corlett and Medlycott 2000, 16).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 22 January 2013
References
Lynch, G. 1994 The holy wells of county Wicklow: traditions and legends. In K. Hannigan and W. Nolan (eds), Wicklow history and society, 625-48. Dublin. Geography Publications.
Corlett, C. and Medleycott, J. (eds.) 2000 The Ordnance Survey Letters Wicklow. Wicklow. Roundwood & District Historical & Folklore Society.