Rockbrook Mill - Reg. No. 11221009
Date: 1810 - 1830
Original Use: mill (water)
The Mews Building - Reg. No. 11221008
Date: 1750 - 1780
Original Use: stables
Rockbrook Park School - Reg. No. 11221007
Date: 1760 - 1780
Original Use: country house
Tigh Ban - Reg. No. 11221010
Date: 1800 - 1820
Original Use: house
Doherty's - Reg. No. 11221022
Date: 1830 - 1860
Original Use: public house
In Use as: public house
WAYHEYYYY and the pub, the merry ploughboy ! Historical!
google street view https://www.mpbpub.com/
nearby:
http://www.megalithomania.com/show/site/20/rockbrook_stone_pair.htm
At Taylorsgrange by Marlay park the South-East corner.
http://webgis.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment/
Class: Ritual site - holy well
Townland: TAYLORSGRANGE
Scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP: Yes
Description: This enclosed spring well is located on a N facing slope in the grounds of St. Columba's College. A beehive-shaped structure of stone with a brick faced addition covers the well. Access to the well is blocked and the water is pumped to an outside trough (Healy 1975, 1-19).
http://www.megalithomania.com/show/site/164/brehons_chair_portal_tomb.htm
"It now sits in the middle of a play area on a very new housing estate."
Class: Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Townland: TAYLORSGRANGE
Scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP: Yes
Description: Located in gently sloping pasture, W of the River Dargle. Three tall granite orthostats survive forming three sides of a chamber which opens to the SSE (H 2.7m; Wth 2.35m; D 2.3m). The E portal-stone leans on the doorstone. A fourth stone had been broken up c. 1876 (Ó Nualláin 1983, 82, 96; Borlase 1897, 2, 393-4). Excavations undertaken between 1984 and 1987 revealed an oval-shaped cairn and concentrations of charcoal and cremated bone associated with the orthostats. A secondary pit burial in the cairn contained an inverted Food Vessel accompanying a cremation (DU022-033002-). N of the orthostats were a series of pits and post-holes and a linear trench, which produced a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age stone and pottery assemblage (DU022-033003-). A bowl furnance dating to the Iron Age was also revealed in this area (Keeley 1986, 18; 1987, 14-15; 1989-90, 74). Monitoring of groundworks in the same field as 'The Brehon's produced a sherd of coarseware pottery. The fill was burnt, and it is possible that some burning did occur within the pit (Reid 2000, 35).
Class: Church
Townland: TAYLORSGRANGE
Scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP: Yes
Description: Shown as 'old Tower' on the OS 1843 6-inch map. D'Alton (1838, 790) describes a small ruin of a tower with detached walls adjacent which he believed to be the chapel of Grange. Joyce writes that it was a square tower or watch tower, entered by a pointed arched door. There are no visible remains above ground. (O Conbhui 1963, 64).
Over through St Columba's college and at Kilmashogue lane there are marked gates/railings, a water pump and across the road a water mill.
Date: 1740 - 1837
Original Use: gates/railings/walls
Date: 1800 - 1837
Original Use: mill (water)
https://www.duchas.ie/en/src?q=blessed+well&t=CbesTranscript&p=2&ct=BAC
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4428236/4387487
The Ticknock Well
There is a holy well on our land. It is said that It is a blessed well When my father was young people used to come And bathe their eyes at it It was supposed to cure sore eyes. people tied a piece of rag on the bush beside it when they came. There are several big stones around it The one over it has carving on it. My grandfather did it. We are known as the "well" Mulligan because there are other families of Mulligan lived in Ticknock. We always had the Well farm.
WHERE ?
The Three Rocks
It is said that Finn Mac Cool once had a competition in stone throwing with a Scotch giant at Wexford. The Giant threw them to the Scalp and Finn to the Two Rock and Three Rocks.
Finally he threw a good big one to Howth and the Giant gave in, This is of course a fairy story
The Soldiers' Cave
On the north-western side of the Three Rocks is a hole or cave in Fulhan's glen.
It was said that when flogging was in the army a soldier to avoid it came out there and died. His body was found and since then it has that name. This cave was also used as a dump and hiding place after 1916.
http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1768.pdf#page=33
There was a big dump beside a holy well on the
lands of Con Mulligan, Ticknock. This was known to Con
and he decided to join the British Army. When this
information reached us, Con was gone some time and there
was a danger that he might give the dump away. Men
were rounded up to shift the dump across the mountain
to the home of Jack Courtney who lived near the top of the
mountain over Kellystown, ...
http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1043.pdf#page=41
Strangely enough, the evening of Rossa's funeral saw the
commencement of one of a series of Volunteer Training Camps at
Ticknock in the Dublin
Up to this Camp, uniformed and laden with equipment,
trekked a number of tired Volunteers after the graveside
ceremony at Glasnevin, and this number included at least five
or six Fingallians. The camp was in charge of (Ginger)
afterwards Colonel J.J. O'Connell, assisted by Eamair O'Duffy
II. This Camp had in fact been in operation for some
weeks previous to Rossa's funeral and was attended
by different batches of Volunteer officers each
week.
and J.J. Burke, who acted as Camp Quartermaster. There for a
week we learned all Ginger could teach us of minor tactics
and military organisation.
Names of the Fingal men in Ticknock Camp.
Ned Rooney tusk
Dick Coleman Swords
Joe Taylor Swords
James Rooney Lusk
Jos. V. Lawless Swords
http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/bmhsearch/search.jsp?querystr=ticknock
... by then in Ticknock, Glencullen, Barnacullia, Kilternan, and a few good men in Enniskerry. Ticknoàk had to be treated as a separate unit as there was a very old feud going back 50 years or more between Ticknock ... Was! There was a decided pull against me, particularly in Ticknock. They carried out my orders but it was evident ...
http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1768.pdf#page=33
A forge was dug out
on the side of the mountain between Mulligan's and Brennan's
on the Ticknock road, and a bellows installed. The
mountain men were all stone cutters and forge work was
second nature to them. Jack Courtney, his brother, Jim,
Peter Little and Jack Mulligan were the blacksmiths
and they set to work on the pikes. What a sight:
stripped to waist, red hot steel, red glow of the furnace,
the music of the anvil in the stillness of the night.
The four big mountain men forged the pike heads
while others stood by to put an edge on them. I had
sections by then in Ticknock, Glencullen, Barnacullia,
Kilternan, and a few good men in Enniskerry. Ticknoàk
had to be treated as a separate unit as there was a very
old feud going back 50 years or more between Ticknock
and Barnacullia. I laughed at this and insisted that
the two sections should come together as a half company
Being young and an officer, I was going to put an end
to this feud. How green I Was!
There was a decided pull against me, particularly
in Ticknock. They carried out my orders but it was
evident that they did not want me. I was an outsider.
Barnacullia had no time for a city man; anyhow, I was too
friendly with Ticknock! It was difficult to carry on.
Glencullen was tdifferent in every way, much more friendly
and I was accepted from the start.
I was accepted as a result of an incident in
Glencullen. The four sections had been out all night on
a manoeuvre which ended about dawn in the village of
Glencullen. We had a drum up on the side of the road;
fires lighted and tea in billy-cans all over the place.
I was sitting on the ditch with some Glencullen men
with my billy-can between my knees when it was hit with a
sod and overturned. I let it pass until it happened a
second time, when I said that if it happened again
the man who fired the sod would regret it. Dead silence
and I went on with my tea. The Ticknock men were together
and in a short while, Jack Courtney, the toughest of the
lot, turned and tired a sod, upsetting the billy-can.
I had a Colt .45 revolver by my. side. I picked it up
and fired, hitting the bank between Courtney's legs
and put his billy-can out of action. That finished the
sod firing. The meal over, we marched back to
Sandyford in time for first Mass and the company was then
dismissed. The following night I was at the forge in
Ticknock. Courtney was there as usual, working hard,
no comments on the Glencullen affair. Some days later
I was invited to a wedding in Barnacullia at which I met
Father O'Rourke. He told me I was no longer an outsider.
I was one of them. He had heard all about the Glenoullen
cockshot and was convinced I was accepted as a result of it.
Yes, I was one of them, lived with them, fought and bled
with them, and proud to look upon Jack Courtney as one of my
greatest friends to-day. All honour to the Mountainy Men.
The path from the Holy Well in Ticknock over the
mountain to Courtney's was as well known to us as a garden
path. Hardly. a week passed without a trip across the
fields, over the river and up the steep ridge to the house.
There was a very dark night when Chad and myself had to
make this trip. All went well until we reached the second
field, and out of it we could not get. Everywhere we,
went there was obstruction of some sort, a deep ditch,
strong hedge or a wall, but no sign of the gap we had used
so often. We, decided we had got lost on the
way and were
in. the wrong field. We sat down to eat some sandwiches,
Chad. pointing out the lights of the city below, giving me
some idea as to where his girl-friend lived (May Kelly
of the G.P.O. Garrison). The meal over, we started along
the path, through the gap and over the hill to Courtney's,
nothing to hinder us. We thought nothing of this! at the
time, we found our way. I mentioned this to my mother
and some of the older locals a long time after, and got the
same reply from all of them: "You had disturbed the Good
People (meaning Fairies) and by sitting down you heft broken
the spell and your way was clear". There is no doubt we
were in the right field but out of it we could not get.
Class: Ringfort - unclassified
Townland: TIKNOCK
Scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP: Yes
Description: Situated in upland pasture. Marked on the 1843 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure. According to Healy (1975, 1-19) it had a level interior (diam. c. 26m). The area is forested. Not visible at ground level.
maybe
https://www.google.com/maps/place/53°15'04.0"N+6°14'52.4"W/@53.250502,-6.2479758,352m
kind of . . . opposite Hanlon's lane, back down path from start of the Metro-1 MTB run
A rifle range is marked on map, on the hill above to left of shed at top of MTB trail.
Part of the volunteers training camp originally ?
? ~ 400m South of Motorway ~ 200m in from ticknock road ~ somewhere here:
on overgrown just to W of track, to NW of field, looks like is under power lines
track gated off.
maybe access from this gate higher up hill under pylon. follow power lines across fields?
Class: Ritual site - holy well
Townland: TIKNOCK
Scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP: Yes
Description: A roadside spring enclosed by a railing. Known as 'Grumleys' Well. It was identified in the 1950's, when carvings of a cross, two chalices and IHS were observed on the covering slab (Ó Danachair 1958, 84). It is overgrown.
http://webgis.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment/
Up from top of Slate cabin lane on right. Woodside road. 4th house on right ?
Class: Well
Townland: BARNACULLIA
Scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP: Yes
Description: A lintelled passage in the middle of a field forms the approach to a stone covered well known as O'Grady's Well (NMI:1962). Thought to be medieval in date.
? beside Keith's family's farmhouse ?
Class: House - 16th/17th century
Townland: WOODSIDE
Scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP: Yes
Description: The original house at Woodside is likely to date from the 1690's (Rob Goodbody Pers coms). It had the front façade replaced in the 1890's but the original house survives to the rear.
In Stepaside, Kilgobbin church, cross, graveyard * 2 and holy wells:
Class: Ritual site - holy well
Townland: JAMESTOWN (Rathdown By.)
Scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP: Yes
Description: The site is located on a gentle NE facing slope. This is a small spring well in a private garden. A statue of St. Patrick is in a niche over the well. Still venerated on St. Patrick's day (Ó Danachair 1958, 84).
and by Jamestown, another graveyard, church, well, cross, tree rings nearby now removed:
Class: Ritual site - holy well
Townland: KILGOBBIN
Scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP: Yes
Description: This site is located in a flat area, which has been heavily landscape due to its location within Stepaside Golf Course. This is a natural spring well, dried up which marked by a setting and granite boulders. It lies in the middle of an old laneway defined on either side by a boundary ditch. The holy well had its pattern day on May 1st, the feast day of St. James (Goodbody 1993, 10). A cross stands beside the well (DU026-004004-).
Class: Cross
Townland: KILGOBBIN
Scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP: Yes
Description: This cross is located in a level area, which has been heavily landscape due to its location within Stepaside Golf Course. The cross stands in a disused laneway and marks the position of a holy well associated with St. James (DU026-004003-). This is a low stunted, granite cross with slightly projecting arms (dims. H 1.22m, Wth 0.61m). The SW face of the cross depicts a sheela-na-gig type figure, possibly seated with head sunk on it's shoulders (Guest 1936, 116, 123). This carving is listed by the National Museum of Ireland, as an exhibitionist figure that has been mistakenly identified as a sheela-na-gig (Cherry 1992, 10). The figure has been recorded by McMahon and Roberts as a sheela-na-gig (McMahon and Roberts 2001, 149). Described by Freitag as a ‘sheela carved in high relief on E face. Heavy round figure, with head set low between shoulders and slightly towards left; no ears; facial features and navel indicated. Arms in front of body; hands joined over pudenda represented, or covered by worn square object’ (Freitag 2004, 142). There is a circular moulding in high relief on the NE face.
There are no visible traces of the early church site associated with St. Caoin at Jamestown. It formerly lay close to a levelled area identified as a burial ground SW of the cross (DU026-004004-; Turner 1983, 64; Goodbody 1993, 10).
https://www.holywell.seomraranga.com/holywellsireland.htm#CORK
CORK
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St. Olan's Well - Aghbullogue Parish
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Tubrid Holy Well - Millstreet
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Ballinspittle
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Inchigeela
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Sunday's Well and Mary's Well - Walshestown
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St. Finbar's Well, Gougane Barra
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St. Bartholomew's Well, Cork City
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St. Brigid's Well, Castlemagner
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St. Brigid's Well, Mountbrigid, Buttevant
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St. Laichteen's Well, Blarney
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All Saints Well, Blarney
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Tobar an Ratha Bháin, Aghinagh Parish
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Sunday's Well, Clonmeen Parish, Banteer
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St. Fursey's Well, Clonmeen Parish, Banteer
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Ronogue's Well
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St. John's Well, Kilcorney
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St. Gobnait's Well (St. Abbey), Ballyvourney (Baile Mhuirne) - Feast Day February 11th
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St. Fanahan's Well, Mitchelstown
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Skour Well, Highfield, Creagh
https://www.holywell.seomraranga.com/holywellsireland.htm#DUBLIN
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St. Brigid's Well, Balrothery
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Lady's Well, Mulhuddart
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St. Patrick's Well, Nassau Street (in the grounds of Trinity College)
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Tobar Caillin, Rush
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St. Mochuda's Well, Bunnow
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Tobar MacLarney, Carrickhill, Portmarnock
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Tobernea, Newtown, Blackrock
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Chink Well, Portrane
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Gregan's Well, Garristown
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St. Movee's Well, Grange
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St. Senan's Well, Slade
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St. Catherine's Well, Drumcondra
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Lady Well, Tyrellstown
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St. Begnet's Well, Dalkey Island
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Jacob's Well, Monkstown
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St. Fintan's Well, Sutton
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St. Donogh's Well, Upper Kilbarrack
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St. Brigid's Well, Castleknock Village
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St. Colmcille's Well, Ballycullen Road, Tallaght - The widely known Shrine and Well of St. Columcille at Ballycullen lies off the Old Ballycullen Road within the boundary of St. Annes parish. The shrine was set up through the efforts of Fr. Philip Doyle and Fr. Malachy Hughes both of the Augustinian order. The project came about when Fr. Doyle noticed that the local postman had a habit of disappearing into a field close by whilst on his rounds. Subsequently Fr Doyle learned that there was a well situated in this field which was venerated locally in the name of St. Columcille. It was discovered that the postman Pat Murray, never passed the place without dropping in to say a prayer at the well and to take a drink from its waters, doing what his father and grandfather had done before him, and in doing so following the same custom of the people in the district. According to local history, St Columcille rested here after a long walk from Glasnevin. It was believed that he quenched his thirst from the sparkling spring and left a blessing on it and all who might come to drink from it thereafter. In June 1922 the well and shrine were formally blessed and the shrine became more widely known and the number of pilgrims increased. A tree guarded gateway admits the pilgrim who must then cross the small footbridge spanning the stream curving down past the shrine. Steps mounts to the small plateau and the eye is drawing to the white statue of the saint, bearing the traditional staff and satchel and at his sandaled feet the well glints in the sunlight.
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St. Marnock's Well, Kilmarnock
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St. Sylvester's Well, Malahide
FINGALLIAN HOLY WELLS
(These are wells which have been identified by Petra Skyvova, 2005 - see Bibliography)
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Graham's Well, Balbriggan
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Lady Well, Balcunnin
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St. Bridget's Well, Baldurgan
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St. Doulagh's Well, Balgriffin
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St. Catherine's Well, Balgriffin
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Biddy Boughy's Well, Balrothery
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St. Bretsha's Well, Ballyboghill (Ballyboughal)
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Bridetree Well (St. Bridget's Well), Lusk
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Holy Well, Broadmeadow, Swords
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St. Mochuda's Well, Burrow, Portrane
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The Caveen Well, Abbotstown, Castleknock
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St. Bridget's Well, Castleknock Village
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Lady's Well, Cloghran
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St. Werburgh's Well, Crowcastle, Swords
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Tolan's Well, Courtlough, Balrothery
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Rag Well, Diswellstown, Castleknock
https://geohive.ie/gallery.html#gallery
Monuments to visit:
http://dahg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=e50543733c514fbf892f7639775c952e
Not many, Kilmashogue, Tully church.
a map of some wells:
http://irelandssacredwater.com/holy-wells-in-ireland-map.html
