Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilnamona, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnamona
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberlaughteen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberlaughteen (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.86586, -9.08115
- SMR number
- CL033-006003-
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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 steep S-facing slope, and 17m SE of Kilnamona church (CL033-006001-) and graveyard (CL033-006002-). Toberlaughteen, dedicated to St. Laughteen, is a circular well (diam. 0.95m) with a corbelled canopy. It was venerated on 19th March (O'Flanagan 1928, vol. 1, 65), but there is no evidence of veneration now.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 April 2016
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1928 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Clare collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.