Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilmallock, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmallock
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Marys Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Marys Well
- Coordinates
- 52.42995, -6.48529
- SMR number
- WX032-006----
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 and described as St. Mary’s Well on both. It is located on a gentle SW-facing slope with the NW-SE River Sow c. 150m to the SW. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was held on the 15th August (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 356), but the well is no longer visible at ground level in pasture. It is described locally as having had a canopy and steps leading down to it, but there is no memory of a pattern.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 August, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.