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
- DU018-469----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of the holy well known in the early 17th century as 'Sunday's Well' on the S side of Dublin City has not been identified. In 1610 Barnaby Rich wrote the following about Sunday's Well on the S side of Dublin City; 'On the South side of the towne, they have St. Sundaies well: I cannot tell what countrey man St.
Sunday was himselfe, but his well is of pretious estimation amongst the Irish (I meane) amongst the Popish sort of the Irish, that doe flocke thither so thicke upon sunday mornings, in the summer season, that I am sure, that if saint Sunday were there in person to read a Lecture out of the New Testament, they had rather go altogither to an alehouse then they would travell so farre to see him' (Rich 1610, 53).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 April 2023
References
Rich, B. 1610 A new description of Ireland. London.