Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballyraheen, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyraheen
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Nahan
- Coordinates
- 52.77494, -6.50553
- SMR number
- WI043-013----
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
Piped spring on the edge of a natural platform, situated on the slope of a stream valley. There are no local traditions, although Price (1958, 355-6) mentions it was formerly the location of a pattern, and that it had a cure for headaches.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.