Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballynabanoge, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynabanoge
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Banoge Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Banoge Well (1924).
- Coordinates
- 52.48005, -8.69971
- SMR number
- LI030-114----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Ó Danachair (1955, 210) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Banoge Well on 1840 map. A pool, three feet [0.9m] in diameter, surrounded by whitethorn bushes. "This well is said to be holy and is remarkable for the curing of animals affected with sore eyes". OSNB. No devotions now, but known to have been a holy well. Used for domestic water supply. No patron known.
See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00280 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24550 and F025.21.00278 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17024.
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 1 October 2020
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Watercourseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.