Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballybrennan Little, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrennan Little
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Keevils Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Keevils Well
- Coordinates
- 52.25890, -6.43612
- SMR number
- WX048-003----
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 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A well is marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as St. Keevil’s Well. It is located on a level, low-lying landscape, just S of the old Wexford to Rosslare road. John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 says that the pattern was held on 27 August (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 281). The saint is St. Caoimheall, the daughter of Caomhlugh. She was the mother of four saints, three – Daghán, Méanóg and Molioba – with Wicklow connections (Ó Riain 2011, 148). She is also reputed to be the sister of St. Kevin (Caoimhghin) of Glendalough, and a church, now unlocated, was dedicated to her in north Kildare. The well at Ballybrennan is not evident and was probably destroyed in widening the N25 road.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 January, 2014
References
Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.