Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
St. John'S, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- St. John'S
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holywell
- Coordinates
- 52.49236, -6.57174
- SMR number
- WX026-003----
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 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a holy well only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on marshy ground in the valley of the W-E Urrin River with the stream c. 70m to the N and the N-S River Slaney is c. 125m to the E. Nothing is visible in a scrub-covered area. Archaeological testing (94E0129) immediately to the S produced no archaeological features (Channing 1995).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 July, 2012
References
Channing, J. 1995 St. John's, Enniscorthy. Possible ecclesiastical site. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 1994: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 83, No. 221. Wordwell, Bray
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - formal gardenunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.