Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Tomcoyle Hill, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tomcoyle Hill
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 52.76335, -6.29987
- SMR number
- WX003-008002-
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 a SE-facing slope. The site of the parish church of Kilnenor (WX003-008003-) is within a graveyard (WX003-008002-). Kilnenor Well, at which a pattern was held on 8th September until 1798, according to J. O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 4–5), is enclosed by a rectangular drystone-walled structure (dims. c. 1.2m x 1.2m; H 1m) c. 30m SW of the church site. The pattern date suggests that it was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, but veneration had ceased by 1940 (OSFM). The well is the source of a stream that runs off to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 February, 2012
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of County Wexford, collected during progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Typescript in 2 vols. Bray.
OSFM. Ordnance Survey Field Memorandums. A collection of survey notes and descriptions of monuments on pro-forma sheets compiled by Ordnance Survey field staff in the course of the 1:2500 map revision of various counties, mostly dating from 1931 – early 1960s. These unpublished manuscripts form part of the records of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service Archive, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.