Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Carrickhill, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickhill
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermaclaney
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermaclaney
- Coordinates
- 53.43579, -6.12281
- SMR number
- DU012-039----
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 'Tobermaclaney' on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is shown standing within a small square-shaped field 12m SW of Carrick martello tower (DU012-040----). No surface remains visible, now underneath road-siding along the beach (Ó Danachair 1958, 79). Building of a pier associated with the martello tower disturbed the well. An 1830 Ordnance recorded the water of the well ran down the hill to form two small pools beside the tower and then ran into the sea beside the curved stone pier (Bolton et al. 2012, 157).
See attached photos (01/02) taken by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F024.06.00378 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/46726; F024.06.00379 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/46727
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 13 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.
Bolton, J., Carey, T., Goodbody, R., and Clabby, G. 2012 The Martello Towers of Dublin. Dublin. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and Fingal County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Martello towerunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.