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Ritual site - holy well

Cahernarry (keane), County Limerick, Ireland

The record

Townland
Cahernarry (keane)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tobersenan
Latest-edition OS map
Tobersenan (1924)
Coordinates
52.62670, -8.56019
SMR number
LI013-060----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Situated immediately N of a field boundary in undulating open pasture on a gentle NW-facing slope. The monument is heavily masked by dense vegetation cover. Some un-hewn limestone blocks are visible in a rough arc (Wth c. 1m) around a spring. Immediately NE of the spring is a depression (diam. c. 5m) known locally as 'the pond'. St Senan was the patron but by the mid 1950s 'there are no devotions' (Ó Danachair 1955, 202).

See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00425 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17072; F025.21.00426 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24507and F025.21.00427 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24508.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 2 October 2020

References

Ó Danachair, C. 1955 The Holy Wells of County Limerick Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 85, 193-217

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

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