Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mooreabbey Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mooreabbey Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lord Henrys Well
- Coordinates
- 53.13131, -7.06263
- SMR number
- KD026-013----
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the W-foot of a moderately steep pasture slope, some 35m E of a small SW-flowing stream which feeds the River Barrow to the W. According to O’Donovan writing in the OSL in 1837 (Herity 2002, 127 [114]), ‘The well near the site of the Monastery [KD026-001----], and which, in all probability anciently bore the name of St. Evin, is now called Lord Henry Moore’s Well, because it was enclosed by him. The location indicated on the OS 6-inch mapping is a large rectangular sunken area (30m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE; D 1-1.8m), the perimeter of which is overgrown with ash and briar, and partly enclosed on the E and W sides by a low denuded, earthen bank (ext. H 0.2-0.4m; Wth 2-2.5m). The interior is waterlogged and heavily poached by livestock, and there is no obvious trace of a spring/well.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 24 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.