Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clongeen, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clongeen
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Edans Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Edans Well
- Coordinates
- 52.29878, -6.77057
- SMR number
- WX040-026----
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 St. Edan’s Well on both in gothic lettering, but it is more correctly known as St. Aidan’s Well, after St. Aidan of Ferns (Murphy c. 1994, 13, 196-201). It is situated in a small NW-SE valley at the headwaters of a NW-SE stream. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was not celebrated and even the date was forgotten (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 354). The well is not recognised with certainty but a large granite stone (dims 0.96m x 0.88m; T 0.2-0.3m) is blocking a well on the N side of the stream.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 February, 2013
References
Murphy, I. (Ed.) (c. 1994) Clongeen through the ages. Authors.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.