Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Naul, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Naul
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lady Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lady Well
- Coordinates
- 53.58783, -6.28718
- SMR number
- DU004-045003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A spring well at the bottom of a ravine SE of the River Delvin. Approached from an overgrown pathway. No longer venerated (Healy 1975, 16). The well is a chalybeate spring. Circa 2000, the owner capped the spring in a concrete structure (Skyvova 2005, 59).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 29 October 2014
References
Skyvova, P. 2005 Fingallian Holy Wells. Fingal County Libraries.
Healy, P. 1975b Third report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.