Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballymore (ballaghkeen By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore (ballaghkeen By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Well
- Coordinates
- 52.41256, -6.41081
- SMR number
- WX033-008004-
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
Located at the W edge of a slight N-S ridge. There is a natural spring c. 100m W of the site of the parish church of Screen (WX033-008001-) and its graveyard (WX033-008002-). According to John O’Donovan, writing c. 1840, patterns were held at the well on 27th September until c. 1820 (O’Flanagan 1933a, vol. 1, 354).
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.