Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Derrybawn, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrybawn
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Kevins Well
- Coordinates
- 53.00904, -6.32264
- SMR number
- WI023-016----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Situated 15m S of the river some 200m E of the main monastic complex. Spring in a stone-lined shaft (D 2m; diam. 1.2m) surrounded by a C-shaped bank (H 0.7m; diam. 1.5m). (OS Name Books)
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
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Cross - Market cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.