Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Monaclinoe, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monaclinoe
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Nicholas Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Nicholas Well (Covered) (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.64939, -8.59207
- SMR number
- LI005-032----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Ó Danachair (1955, 203) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘St Nicholas' Well on 1840 map. A slow spring in a cupola of brick, with a slab "St Nicholas, pray for us". Rounds were made especially on Sundays, but devotion has died out. The well seems to have been in the ecclesiastical parish of St Nicholas'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 01 July 2019
References
Ó Danachair, C. 1955 The Holy Wells of County Limerick Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 85, 193-217
Nearby in the register
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.