Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cooraun, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooraun
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Kierans Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45997, -6.55540
- SMR number
- WX026-025----
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
Described as St Kieran’s Well on the 1839 ed of the OS 6-inch map. It is located in the fold of a small E-W stream that is c. 30m to the S on the W-facing slope of the N-S River Slaney valley. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was held here on the 9th February until c. 1810 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 97). This is now a wooded, boggy hollow but there is no evidence of a well. St Cooran’s well (WX026-078----) is c. 200m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 July, 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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.