Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloncagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloncagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sunday Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sunday Well (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.45380, -8.92057
- SMR number
- LI037-025005-
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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 pasture, on land sloping gently to the S; c. 50m SSW of early ecclesiastical enclosure (LI037-025003-). No evident trace remains. Ó Danachair (1955, 204) noted 'only a vague tradition in the district' of this well. Site of Lady's Well (LI037-025005-) c. 40m to NNE, and St Patick's Well (LI037-025006-) c. 100m to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Ó Danachair, C. 1955 The Holy Wells of County Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 85, 193-217.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.