Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Taylorsgrange, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Taylorsgrange
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Sabhs Well
- Coordinates
- 53.26751, -6.26647
- SMR number
- DU022-032----
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
'St. Sabh's Well' in the parish of Whitechurch is an enclosed spring well located on a N facing slope in the grounds of St. Columba's College. A beehive-shaped structure of stone with a brick faced addition covers the well. Access to the well is blocked and the water is pumped to an outside trough (Ó Danachair 1958, 85; Healy 1975, 1-19).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 20 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.
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.