Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Begerin (loftus), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Begerin (loftus)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernabobaunia
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober na bo baunia
- Coordinates
- 52.38113, -6.86827
- SMR number
- WX035-001----
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 1790 "Composite: 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 Tobarnabobaunia in gothic script on both. The name is more properly Tobar na Bó Báine - the white cow's well (pers. comm. C. Ó Crualaoich). It is situated at the bottom of the steep-sided valley of a W-E stream, with the stream c. 5m to the S. It is not visible at ground level in pasture and there is no evidence that it was ever venerated.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 October, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.