Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Brackagh, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackagh
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberall
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberall
- Coordinates
- 53.40278, -7.04039
- SMR number
- KD002-003----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Described by Wilde (1850, 46) as a, 'sacred spring called Tober-aulin (Beautiful Well)'. On the NE bank of a small, NW-flowing tributary of the River Boyne, with a second holy well (KD002-002----) c. 500m to the NNE. A small bridge (built 1849) immediately to the W contains a short, curved section of wall which is believed locally to define the limits of the well. (Jackson 1980, 145)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.