Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Sion, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sion
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Shaughlins (sic) Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Shaughlins Well
- Coordinates
- 53.38341, -6.51368
- SMR number
- KD006-001----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as the source of a small, S-flowing stream. According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 1-2), 'There is a well called Shaughlin's well … (which) was formerly frequented … and … many miraculous Cures effected. There was an iron hoop appended to a chain at it for the use of those who frequented it ...'. Fitzgerald (1903, 28) says the well was named in a County Dublin Exchequer Inquisition of 1557 as being 'in the possession of Thomas Luttrell, of Luttrellstown'. Jackson (1979-80, 159-60) records the local tradition of it being named after Maelsechlainn, the king who drowned the Viking leader Tuirgeis. On a W-facing slope in undulating tillage. The well is dry, its location defined by an overgrown circular area (diam. 5m) enclosed by iron railings.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.