Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killinardan, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killinardan
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27115, -6.39332
- SMR number
- DU021-055----
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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 Paul's Well in the parish of Tallaght is located E of Killinarden in a field that was under rape seed at the time of inspection. This is a natural spring well dedicated to St Paul and called Tober Phoil (Ó Danachair 1958, 86; Hegarty 1939, 70; Herity 2001, 38). The spring has been piped leaving no visible trace above ground.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 20 April 2023
References
Hegarty, J. 1939 The Dodder valley. Dublin Historical Record 2, 59-72.
Herity, M. (ed.) 2001 Ordnance Survey Letters: Dublin. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.