Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Shelbaggan, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shelbaggan
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Agathas Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Agathas Well
- Coordinates
- 52.25486, -6.87370
- SMR number
- WX045-002----
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. Agatha’s Well on both, although John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 describes it as St. Agnes' Well (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 363). It is located on a fairly level, low-lying landscape, and at the source of a small W-E stream. The area was flooded at the time of inspection, but a large slab (dims 1.18m x 0.84m) was present with a stone-lined well (D 0.7m) just to the N of it and there was a bush growing over it. It is known locally to have a cure for warts, and offerings were present until c. 1960, but it is now disused. The church site (WX045-001001-) is c. 200m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 July, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.