Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Tully East, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tully East
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Johns Well
- Coordinates
- 53.14833, -6.89860
- SMR number
- KD022-033----
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 Fitzgerald (1903, 130-1), the well dried up after the Kildare water works were established nearby to the NW; at which time a whitethorn bush and large stone marked the site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 22-12-2011
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Knights Hospitallersunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.