Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killonahan, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killonahan
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of St. Senans Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Senans Well (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55687, -8.70177
- SMR number
- LI021-068----
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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, 214) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'St Sennan's Well (site of) on 1840 map. St Sennan's Well, now dried up; it was frequented as a holy well about 20 years since. OSL. No tradition survives'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 02 July 2019
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.