Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killabeg, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killabeg
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Chapel Well
- Coordinates
- 52.79347, -6.59864
- SMR number
- WI042-009002-
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 at the foot of a W/SW-facing slope, 40m SE of the church enclosure (WI042-009001-). Natural spring rising in a slab-lined culvert within a stone-walled embrasure in the roadside.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.