Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballysimon (dickson), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysimon (dickson)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballysimon Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballysimon Well (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.64573, -8.56306
- SMR number
- LI005-036----
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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
Holy well dedicated to St. Simon (Ó Danachair 1955, 199) located 50m NE of Ballysimon graveyard (LI013-026002-) and Derrygalvan church site (LI013-026001-). Described in 1955 as following; 'A little well, lined with dry stone, with a small whitethorn bush, 40 yards north of Ballysimon graveyard. Marked "Ballysimon Well" (not in Gothic) on 1925 edition of 6-inch O.S.
map. Locally "St Simon's Well" and "All Saints Well". Said to cure sore eyes and bad stomach. No devotions remembered, no tradition survives' (ibid., 202).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 November 2018
References
Ó Danachair, C. 1955 The holy wells of Co. Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 193-217.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.