Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kill of The Grange, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kill of The Grange
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28161, -6.16156
- SMR number
- DU023-015003-
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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
Situated on a low rise, in a green area, NE of Kill Abbey road. A holy well formerly lay a short distance from the church (DU023-015001-) and graveyard (DU023-015002-). Annotated 'Well' on the OSi 25-inch map. Described in 1896 as a, 'remarkable fount, which may be found at a short distance from the church, just a little within the gate entrance to a lawn appertaining to the “Abbey" (a picturesque and venerable residence of the Espinasse family dating from the sixteenth century), was, within my own memory, styled by some ancient people of the neighbourhood the “British Well.” How it acquired this singular title must, I fear, remain a subject for conjecture. Some forty years ago I was informed on the spot that a parcel of land in the immediate neighbourhood was called by the old people “Mimoge," or "Moymoge," i.e. the Plain of Mogue. St. Mogue , Mædhog, Mæog , or Aedan was one of the most famous of Erin's early saints. This 'British Well' now dry, is approached from the sward by several descending steps formed of blocks of stone. It is encompassed by a strongly constructed building, oval, or rudely circular in plan, and was probably originally covered by a roofing of flags, or boarding, of which no trace remains' (Wakeman 1896, 406-7). This was filled in the mid 1980's leaving no visible surface trace (Healy 1975, 1-19).
The site is located within a complex which includes a pre-Norman church with a late medieval chancel (DU023-015001-), a graveyard (DU023-015002-), a bullaun stone (DU023-015007-), two graveslabs (DU023-015005-, DU023-015006-), a stone font (DU023-015009-), the base of a stone cross (DU023-015008-), and two crosses (DU023-015004) from the former laneway into the graveyard which are now in the care of the OPW in Trim, county Meath.
Wakeman, W.F. 1896 Proceedings - Descriptive Sketch of Places Visited. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 26, 403-18.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 11 January 2023
References
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.