Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Dublin South City, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dublin South City
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU018-020057-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of the 'Well of St. Francis' in The Coombe has not been identified (Clarke 2002, 28). The well was mentioned c. 1530 (McNeill 1950, 302). An entry in Archbishop Allen's Register mentions the Liberty of St. Thomas saying that "it begins beyond the island of the Coombe behind the former gallows [DU018-020122-] of the Archbishop, and on this side of the well of St. Francis'.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 18 April 2023
References
Clarke, H.B. 1978 Dublin c. 840 - c. 1540: the medieval town in the modern city. Dublin.
McNeill, C. (ed.) 1950 Calendar of Archbishop Alen's Register c. 1172-1534. Dublin. Royal Society of Antiquaries.
Clarke, H.B. 2002 Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 11: Dublin, part I, to 1610. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin.