Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Raheny, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheny
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU015-091----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Joyce (1912) mentions St. Ossan's (Assan's) holy Well which was formerly in a field between the church and railway station at Clontarf but is covered up and drains into the Santry River. The site was marked by a depression in the ground and a bush (Joyce 1912, 319). The precise location of this well has not been identified (Ó Danachair 1958, 78).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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.
Joyce, W. St. John, 1912 (1988 ed.) Neighbourhood of Dublin. Monkstown.
Joyce, W. St. John 1912 (Reprint 1995) The neighbourhood of Dublin by Weston St. John Joyce. Dublin. Hughes and Hughes.