Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ashroe, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ashroe
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 52.68524, -8.40917
- SMR number
- LI007-001----
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, 213) recorded the following details about this doubtful holy well; ‘"Holy Well on 1840 map. Not known in the locality as a holy well. The entry in OSNB reads: "Hollywell? inhabitants. Holy? Is a spring well about 3 feet in diameter '.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 01 July 2019
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.