Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballinloughane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinloughane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobersive
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernahillagh (Site of) (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55994, -9.00076
- SMR number
- LI019-163----
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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
In pasture, in NW corner of field with stream adjacent to N. In area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (diam. 1.4m) enclosed by dry-stone wall (H 1m). A recent concrete surround further encloses well on N side jutting out into stream. Well, heavily masked by vegetation cover, is partially covered by a wooden beam. A metal beam has been inserted across the well below the water line. By the 1950s, according to Ó Danachair (1955) 'the well has disappeared and no tradition survives'.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.