Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilcormick, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcormick
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Cormicks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Cormicks Well
- Coordinates
- 52.52589, -6.41810
- SMR number
- WX021-011----
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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
Described in gothic script as St. Cormick's Well on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and located towards the bottom of a S-facing slope with an E-W stream c. 50m to the S and a N-S road c. 20m to the W. A pattern was held at the well on 22nd June, according to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 94). The pattern date confirms that the saint is Cormac of Durrow, Co. Offaly (OF009-005----), who was probably an abbot of the early monastery that was founded by St. Colum Cille of Iona (Ó Riain 2011, 226). Nothing of the holy well is visible in pasture. Kilcormick parish church (WX021-010001-) is c. 500m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 15 June, 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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Moated site1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.