Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Meenyline South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meenyline South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobereenalaffina (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.40376, -9.17342
- SMR number
- LI043-006----
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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)
- 1869 · 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On W side of river. Well, described in 1955 (Ó Danachair 1955, 211) as 'a hole, about two inches in diameter and three inches deep in a sloping rock surface on the edge of a little stream', could not be located. Possibly obscured by overgrowth which abounds in this area. According to Ó Danachair (ibid.) rounds were still occasionally made in mid-1950, and the water reputed to cure sore eyes.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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 - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.