Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilshane, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilshane
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.41878, -6.33207
- SMR number
- DU014-012003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Annotated 'Church Well' on the 1838 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is shown standing in NW corner of an 'Old Burying Ground' (DU014-012002-) in the NE corner of a large field annotated 'Church Field' (DU014-012001-). In 1958 the well was being used for domestic purposes and not considered to be a holy well (Ó Danachair 1958, 76). It has been removed by quarrying.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.