Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Slieveroe (ballinacor South By.), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slieveroe (ballinacor South By.)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Columbkilles Well
- Coordinates
- 52.85630, -6.46164
- SMR number
- WI033-021----
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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 by the side of the road on a marked W-facing slope. A spring contained within a square basin lined with slabs, roofed with a slab and approached by a step. The well is known locally as having a cure for warts. A pattern was held here on the 9th of June, which was discontinued around 1833 (O'Flanagan 1928, 52; Price 1946, 88).
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
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- Burial groundunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.