Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Rylanes (connello Upper By.), County Limerick, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regularunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.