Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cottrelstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cottrelstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Johns Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Johns Well
- Coordinates
- 53.54556, -6.33037
- SMR number
- DU007-002----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located within a roadside ditch, south of Grallagh church (DU007-001001-), graveyard (DU007-001004-) and holy well (DU007-001002-). There is stone in bank with water flowing from it visible, although whether this is a bubbling spring or flowing water into drainage ditch is not discernible. Very overgrown. Described in 1958 as;'a little well in the road dike. No tradition of devotion' (Ó Danachair 1958, 74). Site of dried up holy well described in 1975 as; 'what seems to be the site of it is now completely dry, as water has been diverted by drainage works. Small setting of stones in ditch at roadside' (H. A. Wheeler 15/04/1975, SMR File).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 11 April 2023
References
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.