What is recorded here

Darleys Well in County Dublin is a water source named for Henry Darley, whose brewery operated two hundred metres south on family land. The well sits one hundred and ten metres south of the medieval church and graveyard of Stillorgan, a place perhaps born from an early Christian monastery. Clear water may have flowed upward through ancient stone to fill brewing kettles, linking hidden depth to human hunger and memory.

Annotated ‘Darley’s Well' on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map, standing 110m S of the medieval church and graveyard of Stillorgan which may have been built of an early Christian monastery. This well was named after Henry Darley, who founded a brewery in Stillorgan. The brewery stood 200m to the S of the well. The well stands on land formerly owned by the Darley family. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

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