Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Milltown (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown (coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberaclareena
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberaclareena (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.47165, -8.52704
- SMR number
- LI040-008----
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, 216) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Toberaclareena on 1840 map. The well is on the south side of the road, about five feet below road level, and reached from the road by a flight of steps. It is now dry and overgrown by bushes and briers. The spring issues on the north side of the road and is sometimes used for domestic purposes. Old people in the district remember rounds being made, and rags hanging on the bushes, but devotions have long since ceased'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 02 July 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
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.