Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballymoney (ballinacor South By.), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymoney (ballinacor South By.)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ladys Well
- Coordinates
- 52.90606, -6.28427
- SMR number
- WI034-005----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a hollow on an E-facing slope. Natural spring housed in a rectangular drystone surround (dims. 0.95m E-W; 0.7m N-S). There is a small modern shrine with a statue of Our Lady to the W of the well; the hollow is planted with flowers and a glass left at the well attests to its continued use. The spring runs out of the well into a stream immediately to the W. According to Price (1946, 66), a pattern was held here on the 15th of August.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.