Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloghran (coolock By.), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghran (coolock By.)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lady Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lady Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.43091, -6.22413
- SMR number
- DU014-010----
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
In 1958 the well had dried up and showed only as a hollow in a field where it was marked by a whitethorn bush. The site is no longer venerated (Ó Danachair 1958, 77). Within a level field of pasture.
See attached photos taken by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F024.06.00383 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16743 and F024.06.00384 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/35496.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 14 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.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.