Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Tincoon, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tincoon
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 52.43410, -6.56098
- SMR number
- WX032-002----
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 1811 "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 where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘Holy Well’. It is known locally as St. Anne’s well, and is located in a slight fold and towards the bottom of a steep W-facing slope of the Slaney valley with the N-S river c. 120m to the W. The source is c. 10m to the E but the well is a natural rock-pool (diam. c. 4m) beneath rock outcrop at S (H 1.5m). There is a large ivy-covered blackthorn tree growing on the S side, but there is no evidence of veneration at the well and no record of it.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 September, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.