Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Clonroche, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonroche
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44967, -6.71750
- SMR number
- WX025-051----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A sub-rectangular rock-cut well-shaft (dimc. 1.5m x 1.5m) was discovered in the main street of Clonroche in March 2003. The mouth of the well was lined with granite and it had been sealed beneath a granite slab. The well was explored to a depth of 8.4m, the bottom 3.8m with water. There is no local knowledge of the well, but there are newspaper references to it in the second half of the 19th century (MCDonald 2007). (McLoughlin 2003)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 July, 2012
References
McLoughlin, C. 2003 Report on the discovery of a well at Main Street, Clonroche, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report. Stafford/McLoughlin Archaeology.
McDonald, T. 2007 The pump in our street. The Past No. 28, 106-10
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.