Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Craigue Little, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craigue Little
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Imocks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Imocks Well
- Coordinates
- 52.22734, -6.70235
- SMR number
- WX046-030----
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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
Located on a level landscape with a small NE-SW stream c. 10m to the W. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was held annually at this well on the 10th of December until c. 1800 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 88). The name ‘St. Imock’s Well’ or Shemoge’ is derived from St. Díomán of Clonkeen, Co. Limerick (LI014-007001-), who was an anchorite of the Céili Dé. His death is recorded in 811 and his feast was celebrated on the 10th of December (Ó Riain 2011, 266-7). The well is now a sunken rectangular area (dims 0.48m x 0.35m; D 0.48m) fed by a pipe from the SE where there is a cistern beneath 2 concrete slabs within a rectangular concrete enclosure (ext. dims 2.3m NW-SE; 1.52m). There is no evidence of veneration. St. Imock’s church (WX046-029001-) is c. 375m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 August, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.