Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Glebe (gorey By., Ford Ed), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (gorey By., Ford Ed)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kiltrisk Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kiltrisk Well
- Coordinates
- 52.54902, -6.26618
- SMR number
- WX022-003002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity 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
Located towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of a low E-W ridge. Marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as Kiltrisk Well in gothic letters on both. This is a natural spring with no evidence of veneration. Kiltrisk church site (WX022-003001-) and graveyard (WX022-002003-) are c. 100m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 June, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.