Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilmuckridge, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmuckridge
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Brides Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Brides Well
- Coordinates
- 52.50109, -6.29535
- SMR number
- WX022-023----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 'Brides Well' in Gothic lettering on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map. John O'Donovan, writing c. 1840, denies that there is any holy well in Kilmuckridge (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 225). It is located on a shelf on the SW-facing slope of a N-S ridge with a NW-SE stream c. 200m to the W. It was removed c. 1970 and nothing is visible at ground level in a scrub-covered area.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 18 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
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.