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
- Tobernatasha
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernatasha (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.86475, -9.08112
- SMR number
- CL033-007----
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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 the floor of an E-W valley, c. 150m S of Kilnamona church (CL033-006001-). A rectangular stone-lined depression (dims. 0.85m E-W; 0.2m N-S; D 0.3m) which is now dry, but where ailing children were laid in the 19th century (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 65). The W edge of the well consists of a fragment of a cross-slab (CL033-007002-) (dims. 0.48m x 0.46m; T 0.13m) which has a ringed cross incised with double lines.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 May 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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.