Dane's Well

Dublin Core

Title

Dane's Well

Description of Well Item Type Metadata

1 Name of well and saint

Dane’s Well or Deane’s Well

2 Townland, County, GPS

Daneswell, Dublin

3 Physical description of well and its surroundings

The well “was located in a field known as the ‘Bull Field’ on the [land] occupied by the rear garden of No. 22 Fairfield Road, Drumcondra” (Branigan 2012: 70).

8 Stories

Branigan records that well is “remembered by a local child in the 1880s where statues were […] left lying in the ditches surrounding it” (Branigan 2012: 70).

9 Publications

Branigan, Gary. 2012. Ancient and Holy Wells of Ireland. Dublin: The History Press Ireland.

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