Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloghanarold, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghanarold
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernawatha
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernawatha (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.52452, -8.97409
- SMR number
- LI029-010----
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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 pasture, at base of S-facing slope, on N side of stream. No visible surface trace of well apart from damp area (2.3m N-S; 2.65m E-W) in grassy field. (Ó Danachair 1955, 203) described it as a clear spring with some rough walling, dedicated to St. Molua.
See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00194 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31127; F025.21.00193 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31126 and F025.21.00192 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/169960.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 1 October 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.