Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Forrestfields, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forrestfields
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Slips Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Slips Well (site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.45421, -6.22559
- SMR number
- DU011-037----
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
Formerly located by the roadside on the outskirts of Swords village. There is no visible surface trace of this possible holy well as it has been built over. Local tradition held that the waters cured eyes and mouth, the name is derived from 'sliop' meaning a lip or mouth (O'Reilly 1910, 159; Ó Danachair 1958, 81).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 08 January 2015
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.
O'Reilly, P.J. 1910 The dedications of the well and Church at Malahide. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 40, 147-65.
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.