Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Carton Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carton Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 53.38739, -6.57511
- SMR number
- KD006-013----
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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)
- 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a slight hollow on a gentle W-facing pasture slope at the W edge of Carton Demesne. A spring well is enclosed by a small square, tent-like structure (dims. L 1.75m N-S; Wth 1.7m; H 1.5m) of well-built mortared-stone, with a pointed-arched opening (Wth 0.7m) facing N. Three stone steps lead down to the water surface.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.