Ritual site - holy well

The National Monuments Service's description

Holy Well originally dedicated to St Santán of Kilmasantan (DU025-033----) located 175m to the SW. Situated on a W facing slope above the reservoir at Glenasmole and N of St. Anne's Church (DU025-033001-). A well marked by an ash tree (Dims. L 1.22m, Wth 0.92m, 0.3m). No longer venerated (Ó Danachair 1958, 85-86, Healy 1975, 1-19). Shearman (1876, 92) recorded that 'the ruins of the old church [DU025-033001-], and St. Sanctan's Well, are still extant in Glenasmole, and by a very facile adaptation of sound, the old name is changed to Kill St. Anne'.

See attached photographs of St. Ann's Well taken by Patrick Healy in 1988, from the Patrick Healy Collection accessible online at https://hdl.handle.net/10599/8028, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, County Library, Town Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 10 March 2023

References

Shearman, Rev. J.F. 1876-8 Loca Patriciana – Part XI. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 14, 188-245.

Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.

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.