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well in George’s-hill was latterly dedicated to St. Anne, which may 
have arisen from the name of a street of this name near it. Were this 
so, the great vault near it may have been called St. Anne’s Church. The 
name, George’s-hill, where the great vault comes close to, may indicate 
that, at one time, it might have been dedicated to St. George by the En- 
elish residents in this locality, though at first, the probability is that the 
well, and the vault near it, if originally intended asa baptistry, or place 
of worship, may have been dedicated to St. John. 
As to the exact locality of the southern well of St. Patrick, which 
was open, and acknowledged as such, in 1728, when its water ceased to 
flow, but little need be said, though in 1757, Dr. Rutty, in his Sy- 
nopsis of Mineral Waters, published in that year, says as much, as if it 
was then extinct, or could not be found. Its locality was indicated by 
the name of St. Patrick’s-well-lane, which is given to Nassau-street, 
and Leinster-street, in Brooking’s Map of Dublin, dated in 1728, the 
year the well dried up, though it did not then cease to exist, for we are 
informed by Mr. Gilbert, in his History of Dublin, that the Corporation 
made an attempt, in 1731, to restore the well. That, however, appears 
for several reasons to have been abortive, and very shortly after the well 
must have fallen into disuse, as Dr. Rutty, whose inquiries about wells 
in Dublin extended over several years before 1757, did not get access 
to this well, though he examined wells in its neighbourhood, the water 
of which he analyzed; while the water of the well in George’s-hill, un- 
less he considered it ‘‘Mary’s Abbey” water, he also failed to notice, 
possibly because the two wells were hid or preserved i in vaults or erypts, 
which were then in the possession of individuals, who may have denied 
access to them for some years. 
* It looks as if the ultra English feelings which appear to have in- 
fluenced the Corporation of Dublin, and the inhabitants of the neigh- 
pbourhood of the southern well of St. Patrick, and which led them to 
change the name of St. Patrick’s-well-lane, when the well existed, to 
Nassau-street, also led them to shut up, or, as it were, hide the well, 
and make nothing of it, and, especially as it had failed to give that great 
supply of water which recommended it to the Corporation of Dublin and 
the citizens, formerly, as a sacred and abundant supply of wholesome 
spring water. So great was that supply, we may infer from the later 
version of Jocelyn’s legend, that it was considered the fountain of Dublin. 
In 1728, it ceased to have any pretensions to that title, and it does not 
appear to have recovered itself in 1781, or afterwards. 
Judging, however, from many facts stated in the paper, the author 
concluded that the main supply of water still existed, but that it de- 
veloped itself lower down the street than before 1728, and might be 
found now in any quantity in the College Park, Leinster-street, &c., and 
might be considered as indicated by the main streams from the drain- 
age operations in the College Park, and the numerous excellent pumps, 
wells, and old baths, which, till lately, existed in this locality, which 
appears to be placed over a great fracture or crack in the calp rock, 
