Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Trinity Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Trinity Well
- Coordinates
- 53.35157, -6.95681
- SMR number
- KD008-012----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Recorded by the OSL (Herity 2002, 31) as '…frequented always on Trinity Sunday' (the eight Sunday after Easter), and still, according to Jackson (1979-80, 145-6), the site of a Pattern on that day, during which pilgrims drink the water which is considered to be lucky. According to Fitzgerald (1917, 369), the well is the source of the River Boyne. On level pasture c. 30m W of a small S-flowing stream. This spring well (D 0.6m) is enclosed by a small rectangular structure (dims. L 2m N-S; Wth 1.8m) built of mortared stone with a vaulted roof (int. H 1.8m), entered through an arched doorway (Wth 0.8m; H 1.2m) with redbrick jambs. The roof is unstable and the surrounding area is heavily poached by livestock.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Armorial plaque (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.