Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Glenglass, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenglass
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Well
- Coordinates
- 52.50659, -6.73589
- SMR number
- WX018-029002-
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
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked simply as a well on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a fold on a W-facing slope at the headwaters of a short NE-SW stream that joins the N-S Milltown stream, c. 350m to the SW. It is held locally to have been the original St. Anne's Well before the present well (WX018-011----) was established c. 1.8 km to the NNW. The well is now covered in. The church site (WX018-029001-) is c. 30m to the NE and the graveyard (WX019-016----) is c. 140m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 May, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 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.