placenamesWells
Uilis
Lewis distinguished the authorised change of site from the later construction.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Uilis · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Wells · English · main form
Place & story
A new church site above the Barrow
An order in council authorised the removal of Wells parish church from near Royal Oak to Ballynochen in 1807, according to Samuel Lewis. The replacement was erected in 1810 on the site of an older chapel, overlooking the Barrow. The Board of First Fruits contributed a five-hundred-pound gift and a two-hundred-pound loan. By Lewis’s 1837 account, ruins of the former Royal Oak church remained. These references distinguish two sites, the authorisation to move, and the construction and financing of the replacement. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Idrone West
- Coordinates
- 52.71572, -6.98870
- Mapped area
- 10.08 km²
- Logainm ID
- 365 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Wells. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Wells, 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.