Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Coolbaun (kenry By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbaun (kenry By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.58289, -8.81525
- SMR number
- LI021-111----
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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 level pasture, c. 20m SW of dried-up stream bed. Ó Danachair (1955, 212) describes well as circular area (diam. 12 feet) enclosed by dry-stone wall (H 1.5 feet). This now almost completely masked by dense overgrowth but appears to be slightly raised area (H c. 0.15m; diam. c. 2.9m) defined by scarped edge with stones scattered along its upper edge (this only visible on NW side). According to Ó Danachair (ibid.) known as St Anne's Well.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.