Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Lissaniska West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaniska West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermeedy
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermeedy (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.45055, -8.99955
- SMR number
- LI036-092002-
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
In woodland copse, in NW quadrant of enclosure (LI036-09201-). Roughly circular pool (2.8m N-S; 2.4m E-W; Max. D 0.65m) with roughly stone lined edges. Outflow drain exits from W side of pool and runs ENE-WSW through enclosing bank of 036-09201---. According to Ó Danachair (1955, 211) 'no tradition of devotions'. According to OS Letters 'a holy well dedicated to St Mida or Ida.'
See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00268 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17020 and F025.21.00269 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31094.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 1 October 2020
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.