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Ritual site - holy well

Kilnamanagh Lower, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Kilnamanagh Lower, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · 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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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