Note 151 — Chapter XLVIII · CLARENDON AND TYRCONNEL, 1685-1686
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Clarendon to Rochester, June 8 and July 4. St. John’s Well was at Kilmainham, near where O’Connell Road now crosses the railway, and the name is perpetuated in the intersecting road. A ‘pattern’ fair, which became very disorderly, was held here till about 1835, when the well was swallowed up by builders. See Frazer’s Balder the Beautiful, i. 205 (Golden Bough).