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Ritual site - holy well

Treanmanagh, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Treanmanagh, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Treanmanagh
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Holy well
Latest-edition OS map
Holy Well (1916)
Coordinates
53.00008, -8.95714
SMR number
CL011-019----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the bottom of a S-facing slope in a hazel wood. Indicated and named ‘Holy Well’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This holy well is a natural deep pool (c. 3m N-S; 1.5m E-W) in the exposed bedrock, surrounded by overgrown and overhanging cliffs (H 2-3m) at W and E and open to the S although there may be spoil at this edge. At its N end the pool enters vertical fissures (max. D 1.8m) within the cliff-face. There is a shelf at the base of the cliffs on the E and W sides of the pool. The pool is shallow (D 0.45m) at the S end, but to the N of this it drops vertically to an unknown depth. There is a penitential cairn c. 5m to the E, now spread flat. An enclosure (CL011-018----) lies c. 80m to the NNW.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL011-019----_01.jpg View of well from SE

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 23 January 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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