Dublin Core
Title
Church Well of Kilshane
Description of Well Item Type Metadata
1 Name of well and saint
Church Well (Tobar na hEaglaise)
2 Townland, County, GPS
Located in the Kilshane townland of County Dublin.
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
Branigan states that “Church Well survives only as an unenclosed natural spring colonized by bull rushes within a waterlogged area to the north of a disused quarry, soon to become a Waste Recovery Facility. It formerly stood close to an early medieval burial ground in a field named Church Field. The correct location of this burial ground was only discovered in 1988 when topsoil was [removed] in the vicinity for pipe laying” (Branigan 2012:36).
9 Publications
Branigan, Gary. 2012. Ancient and Holy Wells of Ireland. Dublin: The History Press Ireland.
10 More
“The reference to a church in the well’s name appears [to be] a mapping error by the Ordinance Survey on the first edition map, as there does not appear to have been a church in this area at any time” (Branigan 2012:36).