Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Carrigeen, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sunday Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sundays Well
- Coordinates
- 53.28706, -6.68464
- SMR number
- KD014-026009-
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
According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 42 (128)), 'This was formerly frequented as a holy well. Jackson (1978-80, 147) mentions a late 19th century reference that a procession and pattern were held at the well up to the late 1830's, but comments that, since Sunday was a day of devotion, patterns were not usually held at 'Sunday's' wells. The well lies in level pasture c. 3m to the W of Clane motte (KD014-026004-). It is enclosed in a concrete-roofed, rectangular structure (L 1.8m; Wth 0.8m; H 1m) of concrete blocks, open at the N end, from which a pipe draws water off for domestic use. This spring may once have fed the outer fosse of the adjoining motte?
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.