Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Graigacurragh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigacurragh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45991, -8.76647
- SMR number
- LI038-032----
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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
According to Ó Danachair (1955, 204) the 'Blessed Well' or 'St John's Well' was 'a small well surrounded by thorn bushes inside north fence of road 400 yards west of Granagh Catholic church' where 'no devotions remembered'. No trace of well now evident.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 2 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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.