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St. Dolough's Holy Well
 

County

Dublin

Coordinates

N 53° 24' 56.3"   W 006° 10' 43.7"

Nearest town

Dublin

Grid Ref.

O 21147 42136

Map No.

50

Elevation a.s.l. (m)

34

Date of visit

Sunday 2 September 2012

GPS Accuracy (m)

4
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The octagonal stone enclosure that surrounds the octagonal well-house.


St. Dolough's holy well is less than 60 metres to the north-northeast from the St. Dolough's church, at the end of a short footpath and inside an enclosed area surrounded by a low stone wall.
The well itself is inside a well-house with a octagonal plan, with a pointed roof which is 3 metres high, and four small gables roughly aligned with the cardinal points of the compass. The octagonal well-house measures 140 centimetres on every side. Each gable has a narrow little pointed window at the roof level. Below each of these windows are narrow cross-shaped windows to the north, the east and the west, while the south wall of the well-house has a doorway with a gate that was padlocked at the time of our visit. In the centre of the small well-house is a circular opening in the floor protected by a grid. The water springs from this well and runs outside to the north where there's a rectangular small pool with a few steps descending into it. On this side of the enclosure there are some stone seats protruding from the surrounding wall.
When we came here there was no water in the pool.


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