Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Shanagolden Demesne, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanagolden Demesne
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57498, -9.10154
- SMR number
- LI019-247----
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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
Known as St Senan's Well and 'situated in this churchyard (LI019-012002-), but was closed up by the casting in of gravel and other rubbish' (Ó Danachair 1955, 215). According to Spellissy (1989 173) 'was frequented as a pligrimage site into the early nineteenth century.' There is now no evident trace of it in this graveyard and it is not shown on any edition of the OS map.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of Upload: 3 August 2012
References
Ó Danachair, C. 1955 The Holy Wells of County Limerick Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 85, 193-217
Spellissy, S 1989 Limerick The Rich Land. Ennis. O'Brien Publishers
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.