Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Fedamore, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fedamore
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- (Site of) St. Johns Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Johns Well (Site of) (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54902, -8.59228
- SMR number
- LI022-097----
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
Site of holy well dedicated to St. John the Baptist. According to O'Kelly (1943, 226) a water pump had been erected over the well and all devotion had ceased. Described in 1955 as following; 'This well has disappeared; its spring, apparently, now supplies a pump. No surviving tradition' (Ó Danachair 1955, 216).
See attached photo taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00352 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17047.
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 30 September 2020
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.