Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Portraine Demesne, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portraine Demesne
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Kennys Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Kennys Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.48381, -6.10794
- SMR number
- DU012-009002-
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
Annotated 'St. Kenny's Well' on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map and as 'St Kenny's Well (Site of)' on the 1863 edition of the OSi 25-inch map. Site of chapel DU012-009001-) immediately to E. No surface remains visible. No tradition survives (Ó Danachair 1958, 80; Healy 1975, 25).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 13 April 2023
References
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.