Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Balcunnin, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balcunnin
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lady Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lady Well
- Coordinates
- 53.56124, -6.14576
- SMR number
- DU005-036----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the grounds of a farm house close to a stream. It is an enclosed spring well with a dry stone walled entrance passage (L. 6m). Venerated in living memory. Pattern day on May 1st. (Healy 1975, 18; Ó Danachair 1958, 73). Known locally as Lady Well (Skyvova 2005, 44).
See attached photos taken by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F024.06.00042 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16622; F024.06.00043 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/34330; F024.06.00044 accessible online at
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/34331 and F024.06.00045 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/34332.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Update by: Christine Baker
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 11 April 2023
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.
Ó Danachair, C. 1958 The holy wells of county Dublin. Reportorium Novum 2, 68-87; 2, No. 2 The holy wells of County Dublin: A supplementary list, 233-5.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.