Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Churchtown (forth By., Tacumshin Ed), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchtown (forth By., Tacumshin Ed)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Catherines Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Catherines Well
- Coordinates
- 52.20290, -6.43624
- SMR number
- WX053-003----
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 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
A well is marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map which is described in gothic lettering on both as St. Catherine’s Well. It is located on a level landscape with a small NE-SW stream just to the E. It is not visible at ground level in an area that is overgrown in places with scrub. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was celebrated on 21 October, which is not associated with any particular saint, but the pattern was not being observed even then (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 268).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 21 March, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.