Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Rickardstown Upper (Harristown ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rickardstown Upper (Harristown ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberreendoney
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberreendoney
- Coordinates
- 53.09693, -6.98181
- SMR number
- KD027-021----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Jackson (1979-80, 158), the well had dried up by 1937. 'Toberreendoney' means the ‘Well of the King of Sunday', and is named as Sunday's Well by Fitzgerald (1896-99, 158).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 31 August 2012
References
Jackson, P. 1979-80 The holy wells of Co. Kildare. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 16, 133-61.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.