What is recorded here

St. Peters Well is a small, collapsed stone chamber in County Kildare that people called holy but used only for ordinary water. It sits on wet ground beneath a pasture spur, hidden from early maps and reduced to a triangular hole where gravel once emerged. The name suggests prayer, yet the well never promised cure; it gave drink, waited in shadow, and let the land forget the difference between sacred and domestic.

On wet ground at the W foot of a pasture spur, from which gravel was being extracted in 1993 (SMR file). Not indicated on the 1st.ed.(1838) of the OS 6-inch map. A poorly preserved, un-roofed, partially collapsed, roughly triangular, stone-lined spring (dims. L 1.2m; Wth 1.1m; D 1.2m) is known locally as 'St Peter's Well', but was apparently used as a domestic well and is not associated with any cures. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Linked to St. Peter, the well may have been a site of early Christian pilgrimage or local veneration. Holy wells dedicated to St. Peter are often associated with healing and protection, with traditions of water collecting at dawn or during specific festivals like St. Peter's Day (29 June).

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