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Ritual site - holy well

Millfarm, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Millfarm, 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
Millfarm
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
St Johns Well (Site of) (1927)
Coordinates
52.47688, -8.43225
SMR number
LI032-147004-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Ó Danachair (1955, 216) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'St John's Well (site of) on 1927 edition of 6-inch map. Now forms part of Hospital waterworks. Devotions ceased over fifty years ago. Rounds were made formerly and a bush (now gone) beside the well was hung with rags. The water cured eye ailments. Legends: The well moved when profaned. A trout was seen by people cured at the well. An unbeliever brought a blind horse to the well; the horse was cured and he was blinded'.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 02 July 2019

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

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

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