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Ritual site - holy well

Kiltimon, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Kiltimon, County Wicklow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kiltimon
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
St. Patricks Well
Latest-edition OS map
St. Patricks Well
Coordinates
53.05149, -6.09413
SMR number
WI019-015----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (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

Slab covered well in the centre of a farmyard. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1838-40 (O'Flanagan 1928, 95-6) recorded that 'a well now closed up, but formerly much frequented under the name of Tubber Patrick or Patrick's Well; this well is in Mr. Gorman's yard'.

Date of upload: 29 November 2012

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1928 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Wicklow collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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