Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Capdoo Commons, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Capdoo Commons
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Brigids
- Coordinates
- 53.29421, -6.68187
- SMR number
- KD014-020----
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
Located on the roadside and named 'St. Brigid's' on the current (1939) ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but according to Jackson (1979-80, 148), the well was not associated with any pattern or tradition, and is overgrown and disused. A second, anonymous, source (JKAS 1899-1902, 269) records that an old man pointed out St Brigid's Well 'close to the spot where the ancient ford (KD014-055----) crossed the Liffey' .
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - table tombunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.