Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Lacken (bantry By.), County Wexford, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.