St. Kieran's Well, Kilkenny

[1] Now situated in what is now the smoking area of Kyteler's Inn, it was located in the vicinity of the pre-Norman St. Kieran's Church which was demolished as late as the beginning of the 19th century.

[7][8] The holy well was first mentioned as a reference to the enlargement of High Town or English town (ad ampliandum Villam) as documented in the Liber Albus Ossoriensis in a charter by Bishop Hugh Rufus to William Marshal which defines the land to be granted as lying between Cotterell's Bridge and St. Kieran's Well.

[6] He mentions a "baptismal font of Kilkenny marble, through the orifice in the bottom of which the water of this beautiful fountain is constantly bubbling up".

[17] This article suspects that Alice Kyteler committed the theft of the baptismal font herself "for its subsequent use in her nefarious practice.

The interesting part about it is that the water which he use for the blessing, was taken from the St Kieran's holy well in the courtyard of the Inn.

[20] According to Pádraig Ó Dálaigh's 2018 PhD thesis, the well was eventually covered over in 2013 with indistinct slabs, when another refurbishment of Kyteler's Inn took place.