Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Athlacca South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Athlacca South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. John the Baptists Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. John the Baptists Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.45660, -8.65264
- SMR number
- LI039-013----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about St John the Baptist's Well; ‘This well no longer exists; it is said that it changed position when desecrated, and is now on the roadside and used as a pump, about 75 yards from its original site. "This is a holy well where the inhabitants perform or give rounds on all Good Fridays and Sunday mornings'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 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.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.