Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bulgadenhall, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bulgadenhall
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 52.42885, -8.52206
- SMR number
- LI040-058----
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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, 217) recorded the following details about this holy well; "St Patrick's Well" on
1840 map. A small well, roughly lined with stone. Some trees and bushes grow around it. No devotions now, but formerly visited for the cure of coughs and colds. St Patrick's Day was a day of special devotion. Legends: The well moved when profaned. St Patrick blessed the well. A Protestant lady threw in some silver coins as an offering; an impious Catholic drained the well to get the money, which he spent on drink, but was struck dead as he left the tavern'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 03 July 2019
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 349/23 on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
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
- Embanked enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - formal gardenunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - ornamental canalunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.