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Ritual site - holy well

Tintern, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Tintern, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tintern
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lady Well
Latest-edition OS map
Lady Well
Coordinates
52.23516, -6.83569
SMR number
WX045-028001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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 Lady Well in gothic lettering on both. It is located at the bottom of a W-facing slope, c. 15m from the E bank of the tidal estuary of the NNW-SSE Tintern stream and c. 25m S of the old road between Clonmines and Fethard. This is a rectangular well (dims 0.6m NW-SE; c. 0.6m NE-SW; D 0.54m) within a masonry canopy (dims 2.18m NW-SE; 1.25m NE-SW) with an apex (H 1.17m) over the opening (H 0.8m) at SW where there is paved apron (dims 2.1m NE-SW; 1.2m NW-SE). There is no record of veneration and there are no offering, but a St. Bridget’s Cross is inscribed in cement over the opening. The church (WX045-029001-) is c. 90m to the E.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 July, 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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