Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Rathangan Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathangan Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22195, -6.97579
- SMR number
- KD017-012----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Fitzgerald (1907, 160) identifies an area as 'St. Brigid's well field', but gives no precise location for the well within the field. Jackson (1979-80, 157) quotes a local tradition which describes 'St. Brigid's Well' as being surrounded by a paling, with religious emblems, and which was known for its cures. In an area of level pasture. The exact location of this monument is unknown.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.