Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Garraun, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Thomass Well
- Coordinates
- 52.47788, -6.33192
- SMR number
- WX027-018----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Marked only on the 1924 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as St. Thomas’s Well. It is mentioned by John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 220). The well is located in a hollow in a low-lying landscape. It is a natural spring with no evidence of veneration.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 July, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.