What is recorded here
Described as St Kieran’s Well on the 1839 ed of the OS 6-inch map. It is located in the fold of a small E-W stream that is c. 30m to the S on the W-facing slope of the N-S River Slaney valley. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was held here on the 9th February until c. 1810 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 97). This is now a wooded, boggy hollow but there is no evidence of a well. St Cooran’s well (WX026-078----) is c. 200m to the NE.
Described as St Kieran’s Well on the 1839 ed of the OS 6-inch map. It is located in the fold of a small E-W stream that is c. 30m to the S on the W-facing slope of the N-S River Slaney valley. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was held here on the 9th February until c. 1810 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 97). This is now a wooded, boggy hollow but there is no evidence of a well. St Cooran’s well…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX026-025
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- MikeWest Wexford, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- George Cruikshank, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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