Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bohergar, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bohergar
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.61685, -8.44319
- SMR number
- LI014-050003-
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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
Situated immediately E of a small road on a S facing slope in the valley of a small tributary of the Mulkear River. An irregular area (c. 2.6m N-S; 2.3m E-W) enclosed by a wall of concrete blocks (H 0.9m) is filled with water to ground level. In the National Museum of Ireland Topographical files, the site is referred to as 'a well, supposed to be holy and called St. Brigid's'.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 20 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.