Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilrodane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrodane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48099, -9.06399
- SMR number
- LI028-131003-
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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
Holy well located in field to S of St. Rodan's church site (LI028-131001-) and levelled graveyard (LI028-131002-). Described in the Ordnance Survey Letters as 'there was a little church and burial ground dedicated to St. Rodan, but both have been destroyed and the spot which they occupied is now part of a meadow' (ibid.).
The following folklore was recorded from Ardagh National School about Kilrodane Well; 'In former times there was a church-yard and also a well in Kilrodane. The remains of them are still to be seen in Mr. Hogan's land' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0487, Page 174; accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4921957/4913310/4935463).
See attached photo taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00309 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17035.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 1 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.