Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballymacsimon, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacsimon
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WI024-014----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated holy well within this townland. The well was described in the 1838-40 OS letters as ‘a holy well called Coffey’s Well, supposed to be so called from a man of that name having lived near it. It is still visited by those afflicted with the headache, ague, pains of the limbs, etc. , as the quantity of rags on the thorn over it testifies. There was a Patron held here on the 8th day of September, but not within the last fifty years’ (O’Flanagan 1928, 120).
Date of upload: 19 October 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.