Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Dunmurraghill, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmurraghill
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Peters Well
- Coordinates
- 53.34188, -6.77110
- SMR number
- KD009-024----
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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
On wet ground at the W foot of a pasture spur, from which gravel was being extracted in 1993 (SMR file). Not indicated on the 1st.ed.(1838) of the OS 6-inch map. A poorly preserved, un-roofed, partially collapsed, roughly triangular, stone-lined spring (dims. L 1.2m; Wth 1.1m; D 1.2m) is known locally as 'St Peter's Well', but was apparently used as a domestic well and is not associated with any cures.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.