Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gracedieu, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gracedieu
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Bridgets Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Bridgets Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.50904, -6.21883
- SMR number
- DU007-015003-
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
Site of St Bridget's Well, located in a partially reclaimed paddock 50m N of a corn mill (DU007-015006-) and 150m E of Gracedieu Augustinian Nunnery (DU007-015001-). Lady Well (DU007-015004-) located 220m to SSW. A stream rises E of the well site. No surface remains visible. Site of St Bridget's Well described in 1958 as; 'No tradition about this well survives in the locality' (Ó Danachair 958, 73). Site of dried up well described in 1975 as 'nothing to be seen at all. In small wettish field beside a derelict farmstead and cornmill. Modern drainage ditches have probably lowered the water table, so that former wells have gone dry and disappeared' (Henry A. Wheeler 15/05/1975, SMR File). No longer venerated (Healy 1975, 19). Well backfilled for safety reasons (Skyvova 2005, 52).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 12 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.
Healy, P. 1975b Third report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha, Dublin.
Skyvova, P. 2005 Fingallian Holy Wells. Fingal County Libraries.
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian, of Arrouaise nunsunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.