placenamesTempleshannon
Teampall Seanáin
Shiell’s Well figured in a nineteenth-century scheme to supply Enniscorthy.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teampall Seanáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Templeshannon · English · main form
Place & story
A source below Vinegar Hill
At the foot of Vinegar Hill, Shiell’s Well supplied the source for a water scheme described in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Templeshannon account. Pipes along the bridge were intended to carry water to several public conduits in Enniscorthy. Lewis praised the well’s purity and recorded its nickname, the “liquid diamond”. His wording presents the town supply as about to begin, so the account establishes the proposed arrangement rather than proving its completion or providing a modern assessment of drinking-water quality. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Coordinates
- 52.49871, -6.52383
- Mapped area
- 21.1 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2631 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Templeshannon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Templeshannon: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.