Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bola Beg, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bola Beg
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57897, -6.67865
- SMR number
- WX014-011002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the W side of a road just N of a WNW-ESE stream and c. 150m SE of Templeshanbe church (WX014-010001-). St Colman's Well is a rectangular drystone structure approached by stone steps, where the pattern was held on 27th October (Ó Broin 1983-4, 34).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 April, 2012
References
Ó Broin, G. 1983-4 The holy wells of Wexford. Journal of the Wexford Historical Society 9, 27-35.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.