What is recorded here

Holy well in Dublin South City is a ritual site whose exact place has been lost. It appeared in writing around 1530 and still gives that old city edge a shape: water, devotion and memory touching under the streets.

The precise location of the 'Well of St. Francis' in The Coombe has not been identified (Clarke 2002, 28). The well was mentioned c. 1530 (McNeill 1950, 302). An entry in Archbishop Allen's Register mentions the Liberty of St. Thomas saying that "it begins beyond the island of the Coombe behind the former gallows [DU018-020122-] of the Archbishop, and on this side of the well of St. Francis'. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 18 April 2023

Linked to St. Francis, the well was historically associated with healing and pilgrimage in The Coombe area. References to the site date back to the early 16th century, though its exact location remains unidentified.

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