Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clonmines, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonmines
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Nicholas Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Nicholas Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.26157, -6.76363
- SMR number
- WX045-012008-
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
The site of St Nicholas' Well where the pattern was held on the 6th December according to John O’Donovan c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 148) is located within the bawn (WX045-012002-) associated with the church of the Augustinian friars (WX045-012003-). It is not visible at ground level but a resistivity survey identified a structure, perhaps a paved area that might have been associated with the well, near its site (Byrne 1994-5, 71). The church of St. Nicholas (WX045-012007-) is c. 180m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 July, 2013
References
Byrne, M. E. 1994-5. The results of a resistivity survey undertaken at Clonmines, Co. Wexford. Journal of the Wexford Historical Society, 15, 67-73.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian friarsunder 1 mi
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.