Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mountgarrett, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountgarrett
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rag Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rag Well
- Coordinates
- 52.40336, -6.93899
- SMR number
- WX029-014----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Described as a ‘Rag Well’ in gothic script on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a very steep W-facing slope down to the N-S River Barrow/Nore. This is a natural spring in a rock pool that overflows into a muddy stream. There is no structure at the spring and there is no evidence that there was ever a rag tree or that it was ever venerated.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 August, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.