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The Ordnance Survey Letters described a 'Chapel Well', located near Tallaght on the brink of the River Dodder (Herity 2001, 36). Tradition records that it was a curative well. The waters were believed to cure headaches and indigestion. Daly (1957, 22) recorded that; 'the Chapel Well, reputed to cure headaches and indigestion. This well had a blessed trout, which was in it up to the time of the well's desecration. One wonders if this was the well destroyed by farmer Ledwich'. The precise location of the Chapel Well in the townland of Oldbawn, parish of Tallaght, has not been identified.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 20 April 2023
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