Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilnamanagh Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnamanagh Lower
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50886, -6.37061
- SMR number
- WX021-024002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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
Kilnamanagh graveyard (WX021-024003-) is marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it is situated on a gentle E-facing slope with the headwaters of a small W-E stream just to the N. The well is indicated on the same edition of the map, but it was not remembered if it was ever venerated, according to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 93). The well is a natural spring and is the source of the stream, but there is no evidence of veneration.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 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.
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.