Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballinruane, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinruane
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Martins Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Martins Well
- Coordinates
- 52.26315, -6.82358
- SMR number
- WX045-006----
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. Martin's Well in gothic lettering on both. It is situated on a slight W-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 70m to the W and an E-W road c. 20m to the N. This is a rectangular stone-lined well with a low concrete wall built on top (ext. dims 1.7m N-S; 1.55m N-S; D 1.2m). It is still visited, although partly overgrown with furze. There is no record of a pattern and no evidence of veneration, although it is known locally as St. Martin’s Well.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 July, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.