Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Linfield, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Linfield
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernarughilla
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernarughilla (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.57000, -8.37149
- SMR number
- LI024-010003-
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
At W-end of pasture field. Oval pond (c. 7m N-S; 11m E-W) defined by earthen field boundary SW-NNW but overgrown with briars NNW-ESE. Area heavily poached by cattle. Described by Ó Danachair (1955, 206) as 'a good spring … now used for watering cattle, and not known as a holy well'; according to OSMB 'this well was some time ago held in sacred veneration and devotions performed at it' (ibid.).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 6 December 2013
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.