Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Laraghcon, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laraghcon
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sunday Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sunday Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.36003, -6.44937
- SMR number
- DU017-017----
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 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
Site of Sunday Well formerly located at the entrance into Hillsboro (Ó Danachair 1958, 82). Now a gated entrance to a tree-lined avenue west of a row of Victorian cottages. No surface remains visible.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.