Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilmacanearla North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacanearla North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberanearla (1924).
- Coordinates
- 52.48443, -8.77669
- SMR number
- LI030-095----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Well located at SW end of natural ovoid depression (10m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE; D 0.85m) where loose setting of stones encloses muddy area (1.4m NE-SW; 1.2m NW-SE. Depression covered by dense vegetation. According to local information not venerated within living memory; not marked on 1840 OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.