Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Loughtown Lower, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughtown Lower
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Relickan Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Relickan Well
- Coordinates
- 53.31956, -6.49818
- SMR number
- DU021-001002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Annotated 'Relickan Well' on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is shown standing immediately to the E of a burial ground (DU021-001001-), in the parish of Kilmactalway. This is a natural spring enclosed by a hedge standing adjacent to the townland boundary with Brownstown. No longer venerated (Ó Danachair 1958, 83).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 19 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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.