Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Knockuregare, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockuregare
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Margarets Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Margarets Well
- Coordinates
- 52.45372, -8.55853
- SMR number
- LI039-048----
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
Ó Danachair (1955, 210) recorded the following details about St Margaret's Well; ‘small open well in the garden of a new cottage. No devotions now, and only a vague tradition that it was a holy well. "There are stations performed at this well for the cure of diseases". OSNB. "The people say that no stations are now performed at it". OSL.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 May 2019
References
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.