Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Castle Demesne, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castle Demesne
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI036-187----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of St. David's well which were located in the Earl of Devon's Pleasure Garden has not been identified. Ó Danachair (1955, 212) recorded the following details about St. David's Well in the historic town (LI037-067001-) of Newcastlewest; ‘Castle Demesne, sheet 36, "St David's Well". "A holy well in the Earl of Devon's pleasure garden celebrated for curing those possessed by the fairies", OSNB. The well still exists, in the garden of one of the houses in the town, but there are no traditions'
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 May 2019
References
Ó Danachair, C. 1955 The Holy Wells of County Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 85, 193-217.