Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Newtownboswell, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtownboswell
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Trinity Well
- Coordinates
- 53.02833, -6.10705
- SMR number
- WI019-020----
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 in a hollow on a marked SE-facing slope, 160m NW of 'Trinity' (Ballyhenry) graveyard (WI019-021001-). Natural spring marked by some loose boulders and a modern wooden cross. The pattern day was held on Trinity Sunday (the first Sunday after Whitsuntide) (Price 1967, 410).
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
References
Price, L. 1967 The place-names of Co. Wicklow. VII - The baronies of Newcastle and Arklow. The Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (382-532).
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.