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Ritual site - holy well

Kilcarbry, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Kilcarbry, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilcarbry
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Holy Well (Site of)
Coordinates
52.47056, -6.57033
SMR number
WX026-013003-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked as the site of a church and graveyard on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as the site of a church and holy well on the 1940 ed. It is situated on a hillock with the W-E Boro River curving around it SW-N-SE at a distance of c. 65m to the W, c. 130m to the N, c. 200m to the NE and c. 110m to the SE. The confluence with the N-S River Slaney is c. 600m to the SE. There is no visible evidence of a well.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 12 July, 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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