Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Tintern, County Wexford, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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 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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.