Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Taghmon, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Taghmon
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Nunnery Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Nunnery Well
- Coordinates
- 52.32065, -6.65217
- SMR number
- WX041-008005-
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 Nunnery Well on both. It is situated on a gentle S and SE-facing slope c. 75m SE of the site of the nunnery (WX041-008004-). A small opening (dims 0.35m x 0.25m; d 0.3m) is lined with stones, and the headwaters of a small N-S stream are c. 10m to the E with dense scrub nearby. There is no indication of, or record of, veneration.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 May, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian, of Arrouaise nunsunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.