Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Tinnakilla, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tinnakilla
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobercloonagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobercloonagh (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55184, -9.22515
- SMR number
- LI018-038----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In waterlogged area on S side of stream. Well now encased in concrete to prevent cattle from drinking from it. According to landowner consists of stone-lined well covered by large flagstone. According to Ó Danachair (1955, 214) 'no tradition survives'.
See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00417 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17069 and F025.21.00419 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31027.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 3 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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.