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Ritual site - holy well

Newtown (Shelmaliere West By., Carrick ED), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Newtown, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newtown (Shelmaliere West By., Carrick ED)
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
St. Nicholas Well
Latest-edition OS map
St. Nicholas Well (Site of)
Coordinates
52.34252, -6.50861
SMR number
WX037-031----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · 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 1941 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as St. Nicholas’ Well on both, with the additional information ‘Site of ’ on the later map. St. Nicholas, whose feastday falls on the 6th December, was a 4th century bishop in Turkey and a renowned gift-giver, on whom much of the character of Santa Claus is based (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas) (accessed on 03/12/12) (Butler 1990, 175). John O’Donovan, writing c. 1840 lists the well, but says that there was no pattern held (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 357). It is situated on a fern-covered shelf in the ravine of a N-S stream, on the E side of the stream. The well is not visible at ground level.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 20 December, 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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