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Ritual site - holy well

Dulick, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Dulick, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Dulick
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Toberinneenboy
Latest-edition OS map
St Josephs Well (1921)
Coordinates
52.86176, -8.97674
SMR number
CL033-039002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the S edge of the Lough Girroga basin. The well is circular (diam. 1.25m) and open to the W with four steps leading to the water, two of which are rock-cut. The well is within a rectangular enclosure (dims. 30m E-W; 28m N-S) with mature trees. A path leads to the well along the W side of the enclosure past four statues under their own canopies. It was originally dedicated to Iníne Baoith, and was resorted to for the cure of headaches. (Lenihan 1994, 44-5)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 May 2016

References

Lenihan, E. 1994 The holy wells of Doora-Barefield parish. The Other Clare 18, 43-48.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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