Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Grange West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernakill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernakill
- Coordinates
- 53.38051, -7.07877
- SMR number
- KD002-006----
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 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
According to Jackson (1979-80, 145), the monument was formerly the focus of a pattern on June 24th, but is no longer venerated. At the W foot of a low rise, this overgrown, unenclosed spring-well is the source of a small tributary which flows c. 180m NW to join the River Boyne. The 'kill' ('church') element of the well's name suggests the presence of an ecclesiastical site, but none is recorded in the vicinity.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bawn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.