Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Castleknock (without Phoenix Park), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleknock (without Phoenix Park)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Well (Covered)
- Coordinates
- 53.37274, -6.36282
- SMR number
- DU017-009----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
'St. Bridget's Well (Covered)' stands at the corner of the Chapelizod Road in Castleknock Village, 25m SSE of St Brigid's Church (DU017-008001-) and graveyard. There is a water pump on the site and a blocked opening behind it which may have been the original location of the well. There are inscribed sandstone tablets with text embedded in a brick-built recesses either side of the pump. These contain quotations from the Book of Revelations 7:14-17 and John 4:13 - 'He (Jesus) shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes' / 'Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst' (Ó Danachair 1958, 75).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 17 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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Benedictine monksunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.