Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Lissaleen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaleen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sunday Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sunday Well (Site of) (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.58719, -8.76430
- SMR number
- LI021-012----
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
Ó Danachair (1955, 213) recorded the following details about Sunday Well; ' "Sunday's Well" on 1840 map. This well was filled in about 1880. A large elm tree grows at the site of the well, which is in a farmyard. Embedded in the roots of the tree is an upright slab inscribed "IHS 1760 THOMAS BANKS" said to have been erected by a man who was cured of blindness here. There are stations performed here by the peasantry on Sundays' (OSNB).
See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00210 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17002 and F025.21.00211 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31114.
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 3 October 2020
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.