Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killagowan, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killagowan
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermaclura
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermaclura
- Coordinates
- 52.49771, -6.35913
- SMR number
- WX021-027----
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
Described as Tobermaclura on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and located on a gentle E-facing slope. It was dedicated to St. Mochua Luachra, also known as Cronán (Ó Riain 2011, 470), who was the successor to St. Maodhóg of Ferns (WX015-003002-) (pers. comm. C. Ó Cruaolaoich). A pattern was held at the well on the 22nd of June until c. 1810 when it was abolished, according to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 92). The well is a natural spring, but there is no evidence of veneration. The church of Meelnagh (WX027-004001-) is c. 180m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 June, 2012
Date of ememdation: 21 June, 2013
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.
Culleton, E. 1999 Celtic and Early Christian Wexford. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999.
Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.