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Ritual site - holy well

Kilnahue, County Wexford, Ireland

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Townland
Kilnahue
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Toberchreest
Latest-edition OS map
Toberchreest
Coordinates
52.67437, -6.31803
SMR number
WX006-062----

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located in a natural hollow towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope, with a slight hill rising c. 400m to the SE. The holy well known as Toberchríost - Christ's Well - had a pattern on St. John's Eve, the 28th June, until c. 1820, according to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, 13). This is a natural spring and the source of a stream that runs off to the S, but there is no evidence of veneration. Archaeological testing (18E0522) of an extensive area of about 14 ha (c. 35 acres) immediately to the W and SW produced potential archaeological material in five of 23 trenches. (Hickey 2018; excavations.ie 2018:253)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 1 March, 2012
Amended: 26 October 2020

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.

Hickey, S. 2018 Archaeological Testing Report, Kilnahue, Gorey, Co. Wexford. Licence No. 18

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