Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Arnestown (bantry By.), County Wexford, Ireland
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----
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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.