Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Carrick (carrick Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrick (carrick Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobercro
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobercro
- Coordinates
- 53.37566, -7.03777
- SMR number
- KD002-008----
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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
According to Jackson (1979-80, 145), there was a local tradition of veneration and cures at this well which, according to local information, was culverted as a domestic water source in the 1960's. On a completely overgrown roadside, near the S foot of Carrick Hill.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.