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Recorded monument · DU018-020055 · Co. Dublin

Ritual site – holy well at Co. Dublin (DU018-020055)

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670 planning applications in the last 10 years fall inside this monument’s zone of notification, and 176 An Coimisiún Pleanála cases touch it.

670
in the zone, 10 years
670
in the zone, all years
176
ACP cases in the zone
15
within 100 m, 10 years

Zone of notification 100.95 ha

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Appeals in the zone of notification 176 with An Coimisiún Pleanála

Building work started in the zone of notification 293 commencement notices

The record DU018-020055

SMR number
DU018-020055
Class
Ritual site – holy well
Townland
Co. Dublin
Named on the OS map
Not indicated
National record
National Monuments Service record for DU018-020055

The Obelisk Fountain (NIAH Reg. No. 50080307) on the W end of James's Street opposite St James' Church (DU018-020346-) was locally believed to have been built on the site of the medieval St James's Well that was described in 1610 (Branigan 2012, 82). However the fountain stands 320m W of St. James's Gate (DU018-020035-) and this location does not match the description of the well in the 1620 lease to James Veldon which was was around 14m away from the medieval gate. In 1620 the Dublin Assembly Rolls recorded that; 'James Veldon, tanner, shall have a lease for tearme of fourscore and nyneteene yeares uppon a voyd plott of ground without Saint James gate [DU018-020035-], on the north side thereof, bonding from the said gate to a howse which the said James houldeth neere thereunto, contayneing in breadth from the said gate in the east to the said howse in the west twentie three foote [7m], and in the sowth and north end twentie eight foote [8.5m], and in length from the said gate in the sowth to the well called Saint James well in the north fortie five foote [13.7m] at the yearelie rent of twentie shillinges, sterling current mony in England (CARD Vol. 3, 127). A pattern and large fair was held at this well annually on the 25th of July, the feastday of Saint James the Apostle (Clarke 2002, 28). In 1610 Barnaby Rich wrote the following about a St. James' Well on the W side of Dublin City; 'On the west part of Dublin they have St. Jeames his well, and his feast is celebrated the 25. of Julie, and upon that day, a great Mart or faire is kept fast by the Well. The commoditie that is there to be vented, is nothing else but Ale, no other merchandize but only Ale: I thinke such another Faire was never heard of in any other place, where a man can not buy so much as a penniworth of pins, but what money hee hath to bestow, hee must lay it out for Ale, and yet it carries the name of S. James his faire. The multitude of rascall people that useth to frequent this faire, are first accustomed to perform certaine ceremonies at S. James his well, in casting the water, backward and forward, on the right side and on the left, and over their heads; then drinking a draught of the water, they go into the Faire, and there installing themselves in some Brothel-booth, they sit and drinke drunke all the day after' (Rich 1610, 52-3). In 1757 Dr. Rutty tested the water from the well of 'St. James's' which he located in Watling Street (Rutty 1757, Table 1 CC). A possible site of the well was marked in this location by the Friends of Medieval Dublin Map (1978, D1). This would have been one of the conduits which supplied water to the inhabitants of Medieval Dublin (UASCD, 1978, Vol 11, 149). A fountain marked at this location on the 1886 OSi City of Dublin: sheet XVIII.56 matches closely the location of the well as described in the 1620 lease to James Veldon. Cross-reference with DU018-468---- See attached Rocque's 1756 Map of Dublin City showing the location of St. James's Gate and 1886 OSi City of Dublin: sheet XVIII.56 ("City of Dublin," held by Ordnance Survey Ireland. © Public domain. Digital content: © Ordnance Survey Ireland, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:40905>) Rutty, J. 1757 The Mineral Waters of Ireland. Dublin. Branigan, G. 2012 Ancient and Holy Wells of Ireland. The History Press Ireland. Dublin. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 April 2023

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