Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cappafeean, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappafeean
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberbreeda
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberbreeda (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.91670, -8.89164
- SMR number
- CL026-020002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
At the W edge of a small S-N stream. A circular stone-lined area (int. diam. 1.4m; D 0.9m) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m). A mature sycamore 2m to the W has votive offerings and may have formed part of rounds at this well. A children's burial ground (CL026-020001-) is c. 50m to the SW.
(Frost 1893, 49; Lenihan 1992, 28-9)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 May 2017
References
Lenihan, E. 1992 The holy wells of Inchicronan parish. The Other Clare 16, 27-30.
Frost, J. 1893 (Reprint 1978) The history and topography of the county of Clare: from the earliest times to the beginning of the 18th century. Dublin. Mercier Press.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.