Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cluggin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cluggin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernacrohaneeve
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernacrohaneeve
- Coordinates
- 52.54642, -8.28552
- SMR number
- LI024-083----
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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. Circular, drystone well (diam. 1m) covered by metal sheet on S-side and enclosed by wire fence. Water level is shallow (D 0.2m). Church and graveyard (LI024-082001- and LI024-082002-) c. 150m to W. Described by Ó Danachair (1955, 206) as 'a small clear well in an open field … now used for domestic purposes … but known to have been a holy well … dedicated to the Holy Cross'.
See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00152 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31157 and F025.21.00150 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16984.
Compiled by: Denis Power
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.