Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Millfarm, County Limerick, Ireland
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-
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, 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
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- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.