Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballymacar, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacar
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Byrnes Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Byrnes Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.37593, -6.88438
- SMR number
- WX034-007----
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
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 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as ‘Byrne’s Well’ in gothic lettering on both. It is located towards the top of a steep W-facing slope. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 ‘Burns Well’ had been a place where the stations were performed at one time, but the name of the saint was forgotten (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 258). There is no evidence of a well in a pasture field.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 September, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.