Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilgorman, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgorman
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Kilgorman Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilgorman Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.70913, -6.17708
- SMR number
- WX007-015003-
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
Marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as the site of Kilgorman Well, and located towards the bottom of the S-facing slope of a small hill and c. 10m outside the boundary of the graveyard (WX007-015002-). The sea-shore is c. 230m to the SE, but there is no visible evidence of a well. Little is known of St. Gormán except that his feast was celebrated on 25 October (Ó Riain 2011, 369), but even this had long been forgotten at Kilgorman according to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 3).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 August, 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.
Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.