Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Naas East, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Naas East
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sunday Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sundays Well (Covered)
- Coordinates
- 53.21667, -6.65604
- SMR number
- KD019-031----
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
According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 56 (164)), ' … 'Sunday Well' … was formerly frequented and … a patron was held at certain periods.' In 1972, the well, in level, poorly drained pasture, was found to be covered with a concrete cap housing an iron cover and enclosed by iron railings (SMR file). Jackson (1979-80, 153) comments, 'The well is not remembered in the area … .'
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
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- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.