Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilnew (ballyvaldon Par.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnew (ballyvaldon Par.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberrevagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberrevagh
- Coordinates
- 52.48041, -6.31485
- SMR number
- WX027-022----
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
Described in gothic script as Toberrevagh on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and located on a NE-facing slope with a small NW-SE stream c. 110m to the NE. The name - Tobar Riabhabh - means the dark, swarthy well (pers. comm. C. Ó Crualaoich). This is a natural spring (dims. c. 1m x c. 0.6m) with a stone lining but there is no evidence of veneration.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 18 July, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.