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Ritual site - holy well

Rylanes (Connello Upper By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Rylanes, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rylanes (Connello Upper By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Sunday Well
Latest-edition OS map
Sunday Well (1923).
Coordinates
52.47577, -8.85933
SMR number
LI029-113----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On E side of lower road leading into Ballingarry, at junction where two roads meet. Well now part of waterworks for village and covered by a small pump house. Plaque, with inscription "Tobar Ri an Domnaig", on wall of building facing road. According to Ó Danachair (1955, 204) this was a strong spring visited formerly on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings and said to cure many diseases.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Ó Danachair, C. 1955 The holy wells of Co. Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 193-217.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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