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Ritual site - holy well

Lacken (Bantry By.), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Lacken, 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
Lacken (Bantry By.)
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tobercarrigeen
Latest-edition OS map
Tobercarrigeen
Coordinates
52.40500, -6.87973
SMR number
WX029-018----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: 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

Described in gothic script as Tobercarrigeen - the well of the little rock - on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map. It is located just NW of a col between Lacken Hill c. 700m to the SW of the col and another hill c. 700m to the N. It is also at the head of a SE-NW valley. This is a natural spring at the base of rock outcrop that lies to the E. There is no evidence of a structure or that it was ever venerated, but it is the source of a stream that runs off to the NW. Rath (WX029-017----) is c. 150m to the W.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 1 August, 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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