Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Oldcourt (bantry By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldcourt (bantry By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberpatrick
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberpatrick
- Coordinates
- 52.40360, -6.73714
- SMR number
- WX030-045----
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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
Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as Toberpatrick in gothic lettering on both. It is situated on a slight SE-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 60m to the E. The well may have been approached between two substantial banks from Rathmore (WX030-045----) c. 60m to the W at one time as the 1925 map shows the N bank of the enclosure extending towards the well, but this part of the bank has now been removed. The field bank (Wth c. 5m; H c. 1m) and hedge on the S side still survive. John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 mentions the well but says that the pattern was lapsed (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 50). The well is in a wet, overgrown area and could not be identified.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.