Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Whitewell (scarawalsh By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitewell (scarawalsh By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- White Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- White Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.61636, -6.40411
- SMR number
- WX011-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 at the bottom of a fairly steep scarp that is at the bottom of a N-facing slope, with an E-W stream c. 65m to the N. The well is marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as 'White Well' in gothic script on both. There is no well surviving now, and there is no evidence that it was ever venerated.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 April, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.