Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gortadroma, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortadroma
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberreendoney
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberreendoney (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.53849, -9.15143
- SMR number
- LI018-093----
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
No visible surface trace of well which, according to local information, was not encased but simply a spring in the ground. According to OSL (vol. 2, 12) called 'Tobar Ri(fada)gh an Domhnaigh (Well of the King of Sunday)'. Site now occupied by County Council rubbish dump. Described by Ó Danachair (1955, 214) as 'a small clear spring, overhung by an old thorn tree … the devotion has almost died out.'
See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00223 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31108; F025.21.00220 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17005 and F025.21.00218 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17004.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 30 September 2020
References
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.