Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Colvinstown Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Colvinstown Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Well
- Coordinates
- 52.94561, -6.63220
- SMR number
- WI027-034003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated within a graveyard on the NW slope of Colvinstown hill. An approximately circular pool (dims. c. 1.2m E-W; 0.8m N-S), with a semi-circular corbelled wall at the E. It is now surrounded by a wire fence. Mentioned in OS Name Books that the well was not used for drinking water as it is within Colvinstown graveyard (WI027-034002-). (ITA Survey 1945)
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.