Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cork Great, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cork Great
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Abbey Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.21108, -6.11209
- SMR number
- DU026-069----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Annotated 'Abbey Well' on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is marked 70m to the S of Cork Abbey (DU026-068001-), in the parish of Oldconnaught. Annotated 'Well' on the 1863 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The 1837 Ordnance Survey Letters described the Abbey Well as a fine spring well, encased in brick and vaulted (O'Flanagan ed. 1927, 32). The site is E of Oldconnaught Village on the Bray coastline. There is a housing estate on the site today and there is no visible trace of the holy well.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 21 April 2023
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2001 Ordnance Survey Letters: Dublin. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.