Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilgobbin, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgobbin
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU025-016013-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a curative well in the townland of Kilgobbin known as the 'Eye Well' has not been identified. In 1837 the Ordnance Survey recorded the following details about this well; 'Close to Kilgobban old church [DU025-016001-) there was a holy well called "The eye well" (the Tobernasool of other churches), but a drain sunk in its neighbourhood removed its spring or rather caused it to disappear. This cannot be shewn on the Maps (Herity 2001, 5).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 8 May 2023
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2001 Ordnance Survey Letters: Dublin. Dublin. Four Masters Press.