Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Greatconnell, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greatconnell
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17298, -6.76596
- SMR number
- KD023-017----
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
On Baroda Stud Farm, c. 450m ENE of Connellmore House. Although not shown on either the 1st ed. (1838) or latest ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map, the OS Letters (Herity 2002, 73 (214)) record that it was named after St. Augustine, while the monument is named 'St. Austin's (Holy Well)' on the intervening OS 25-inch map. Jackson (1979-80, 148-9) states that while no pattern was associated with this well, tokens were left at it. According to Clarke (1968, 341), the well, surrounded by some half dozen trees and having been dry for the previous 30 years, ‘was restored to use and blessed’ in 1968.
Compiled by; Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 28 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Dovecoteunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.