Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Talbotstown Lower, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Talbotstown Lower
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernachristhamaun
- Coordinates
- 52.92694, -6.63743
- SMR number
- WI027-050----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on level to gently sloping ground beside the road. An unmarked spring which according to the OS Name Books was traditionally 'good for various cures'.
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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.