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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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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.

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