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in Rocque’s famous Map of Dublin, published in 1756, as the west end of 
North King-street, near Smithfield, the present cattle market of Dublin. 
This place is found to be just a mile distant from an elevated spot near 
the bridge over the canal on the Finglas road, from close to which St. 
Patrick might have first seen the plain on the north side of the city 
flooded by the tides, the village of Ath-cliath and the city of Dublin in 
the distance on the opposite side of the river. At Ath-cliath, according 
to the legend, St. Patrick was entertained at the house of a certain wo- 
man, who complained to him that the water of the stream running by 
her house was always saltish, from the tide mixing with it, and that it 
was very troublesome going some distance up the stream to get 
the pure water. This stream, the author concluded, was the Bra- 
thogue, a river laid down on Speed’s Map of 1610, and recognised 
before its entry into the present city in the Ordnance Survey Maps. In 
consequence of the complaint of his landlady, the saint produced a well 
of pure water on the spot, to which his name was given. Mr. Clibborn 
having found, in the pump of Mr. Carton, a fit representative of the well 
of St. Patrick, was led to inquire in its neighbourhood for an ancient 
holy well, which should realize the character of the water in the original 
well of St. Patrick, and found one close by, which was pointed out to 
him by Mr. Brophy, and which appeared to realize all that could be said 
for the original well produced at Ath-cliath by St. Patrick for the benefit 
of his hostess and her neighbours. This ancient well he was disposed 
to consider the true original well. It isin Mr. Bailie’s timber-yard, 
corner of George’s-hill and Cuckoo-lane, in a vault, approached by a 
great flight of steps, also leading to a vaulted chamber, which appears 
to have been an ancient church. The local tradition leads to the con- 
clusion that these vaults extend to a great distance, south to the Liffey, 
and westwards to the Thief’s Hole, near the Park Gate, which was opened 
about thirty years ago, when it was examined by the police, in conse- 
quence of a report that the body of a murdered female had been hid 
therein. 
Jocelyn’s legend went on to state that, after the saint left the vil- 
lage of Ath-cliath, he came to the noble city of Dublin, where, having 
brought to life the children of the king who ruled over it, the king, 
with his court and the citizens, proposed to be baptized, and the saint 
again struck the ground with the staff of Jesus, and produced the 
“Southern Well” of St. Patrick. This was the well in Nassau-street, 
to which attention was at first directed. 
Having gone into many arguments to prove the existence of two wells 
of St. Patrick, the original or northern, and the ‘‘ southern well,” the 
author proceeded to show that Dr.Rutty’s statements of the qualities of the 
waters of the two wells were perfectly consistent with the uses for which, 
according to the legend, they were intended—the one for domestic pur- 
poses being pure water, and the other, for baptismal purposes, being slightly 
saline, but not so much so as to render it unfit for ordinary use.» He then 
went on to say that, taking the narrative as it was given by Jocelyn, it 
enabled us to map out the topography of Dublin and its immediate neigh- 
