Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Abbeyland (Castledermot ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyland (Castledermot ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernabreadan Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.90558, -6.84010
- SMR number
- KD040-005----
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5 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)
- 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
The name means 'Salmon Well', although Jackson says there was no such tradition of a fish living in the well. She does however report a local tradition that the water was used by the monks in the friary at Castledermot (see under Castledermot No. ) (JKAS 1979-80, 152). The field is now drained, and there are no visible surface traces of the well.
Date of upload: 8 September 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.