Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clonough, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonough
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Michaels Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Michaels Well
- Coordinates
- 52.73938, -6.20565
- SMR number
- WX003-030----
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 on a steep W-facing slope in the valley of the NW-SE Clonough River, with the stream c. 10m to the W. Described as St. Michael's Well on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map, this is a natural spring that is a source of a short stream (L c. 10m) that joins the Clonough c. 10m to the S. There is no structure and there is no record of, or evidence of, veneration. Archaeological testing (08E0997) c. 50m to the N failed to produce any related material (Gregory 2011).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 February, 2012
References
Gregory, N. 2011 Clonough. No archaeological significaance. in I. Bennett (2011) Excavations 2008: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 372, No. 1273. Wordwell, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.