Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Liscannor, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscannor
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermacrehy
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermacrehy (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.94267, -9.38235
- SMR number
- CL015-081----
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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
In flat poorly drained ground beside a stream close to the N shore of Liscannor Bay, with clear views S across the bay, overlooked by higher ground to the N. Located c. 460m W of the medieval church of Kilmacreehy. Marked and labelled ‘Tobermacrehy’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. In 1839, Curry noted the well, ‘now neglected and unfrequented, though formerly in great repute for curing diseases of the eyes and other diseases’ (Comber 1997, 94). A small dry well with a drystone-lined rectangular well shaft (L 0.55m; Wth 0.4m; D 0.6m) covered by a single large Liscannor flagstone.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL015-081----_01.jpg
CL015-081----_02.jpg
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 15 August 2023
References
Comber, M. (ed.) 1997 The antiquities of County Clare: John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Clasp Press. Ennis.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.