Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Newtown (shelmaliere West By., Carrick Ed), County Wexford, Ireland
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----
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
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.