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Ritual site - holy well

Oldcourt (Bantry By.), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Oldcourt, 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
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 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

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

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

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