Dublin Core
Title
Chapel Well
Description of Well Item Type Metadata
1 Name of well and saint
Chapel Well
2 Townland, County, GPS
Old Bawn, Dublin
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
Branigan notes that “Chapel Well was located in a pointed field at the edge of the Dodder and to the north of Old Bawn Bridge, Tallaght. The site is now within the Dodder Valley Linear Park” (Branigan 2012: 91).
4 Cure
Cures headaches and indigestion.
8 Stories
The well is “said to possess a supernatural trout, and was filled in by the landowner in 1820. It then moved to the other side of the field but the trout did not reappear in the new well. No trace now exists” (Branigan 2012: 91).
9 Publications
Branigan, Gary. 2012. Ancient and Holy Wells of Ireland. Dublin: The History Press Ireland.