Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gorteen (Dunfierth ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (Dunfierth ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernagriddle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernagriddle
- Coordinates
- 53.39467, -6.86094
- SMR number
- KD004-007----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
On the E bank of the NE-flowing Fear English River in improved pastureland. No longer visible at ground-level, and not remembered locally as a holy well.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.