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Ritual site - holy well

Arnestown (Bantry By.), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Arnestown, 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
Arnestown (Bantry By.)
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tobercaoch
Latest-edition OS map
Tobercaoch
Coordinates
52.38196, -6.92680
SMR number
WX029-023----

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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

It is described as Tobercaoch – the blind well - in gothic lettering on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and it is located on a W-facing slope that is at the head of a small E-W valley. John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 mentions it as having a cure for blindness (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 341). The well is now dry but it is built of drystone walling and is covered with a large lintel (dims. 1.1m x 0.9m) with an opening (Wth 0.6m; H 0.17m) on the W side.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 1 August, 2012

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of County Wexford, collected during progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Typescript in 2 vols. Bray.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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