Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gortnagross, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnagross
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.44896, -9.29200
- SMR number
- LI034-003----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Ó Danachair (1955, 215) in this townland was a well named 'Tobar Mhichíl ... now used to supply water to Athea ... an old man, born in 1816, stated that his grandfather used to make rounds at this well' (ibid.). There is no well marked on the OS maps in the location given by Ó Danachair and an extensive search of the area did not reveal an such well nor is there any local knowledge of its existence.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 23 August 2012
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyard2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.