Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Coolrainey, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolrainey
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Margarets Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Margarets Well
- Coordinates
- 52.39099, -6.36879
- SMR number
- WX033-015----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as ‘St. Margaret’s Well’ on both. It is located in a small marsh with sand-dunes and the sea-shore c. 450m to the SE. The well is a natural pond (diam. c. 8m) but there is no evidence of, or record of, veneration. The parish church of St. Margaret’s (WX033-034----) was somewhere to the E before the sea destroyed it.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 September, 2012
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)1 mi
- Graveyard2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.