Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Lissenhall Little, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissenhall Little
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Sunday Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sunday Well
- Coordinates
- 53.47657, -6.20702
- SMR number
- DU012-011----
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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 'Site of Sunday Well' on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map and as 'Sunday Well' on subsequent historical OSi maps. A natural spring well it was formerly a 'station well of great estimation' (Ó Danachair 1958, 81). Infilled during roadworks c. 1974 (Healy 1975). No surface remains visible.
See attached photos taken by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F024.06.00343 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/41440; F024.06.00341 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/41443.
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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.