Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cromwells Fort, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cromwells Fort
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St, Nicholas Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Nicholas Well
- Coordinates
- 52.32823, -6.46086
- SMR number
- WX037-039----
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 on both as St. Nicholas’ Well. It is situated towards the bottom of a steep N-facing slope in a mature deciduous wood. St. Nicholas of Myra, 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) (Butler 1990, 175), but there is no record of a pattern.There is now an abandoned concrete reservoir at the location, with no evidence of an ancient well or of veneration.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 December, 2012
References
Butler, Rev. A. 1883 Lives of the Saints. J. S. Virtue London and Dublin, Reprint (1990) London. Studio Editions (Abridged)
Nearby in the register
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.