Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killaspuglonane, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaspuglonane
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberlonane
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberlonane (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.95680, -9.34254
- SMR number
- CL015-059005-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a S-facing slope in marshy pasture c.40m E of a small S-flowing stream that forms part of the boundary of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL015-059001-). Indicated and labelled ‘Toberlonane’ on both the first (1840) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. O’Donovan (Comber 1997, 94) noted the well, commenting that ‘stations continue still to be performed’, and his informants recalled the former presence of a pattern at the site but could not recall its day.
The holy well lies within a C-shaped drystone walled enclosure (diam. c. 10m) flanked to the N by a boreen. The well is formed by a deep pool (D c. 1m) within a simple wellhouse formed by a U-plan drystone wall open to the SE and capped with two large flagstones (L 1m; W 0.6m and L 0.6m; W 0.8m). A carved stone head (CL015-059004-) was found ‘beside’ the holy well (Swan 1987, 159).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 8-10-2025
References
Comber, M. (ed.) 1997 The antiquities of County Clare: John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Clasp Press. Ennis.
Swan, L 1987 A carved stone head from Killaspuglonane, Co. Clare. In Rynne, E. (ed.) Figures from the past: studies on figurative art in Christian Ireland, 159-167. Glendale Press. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.