Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Moanroe More, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moanroe More
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobergal
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobergal (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.39864, -9.00495
- SMR number
- LI044-082----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In level pasture. Area now fence off and the well itself is being used by County Council as part of local water supply. Known locally as "The White Well" but no memory of it being in holy use. Described by Ó Danachair (1955, 211) as 'a strong clear spring about nine feet in diameter'; he notes 'no devotions' here because 'the well moved when clothes were washed there' (ibid.).
See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00360 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17050 and F025.21.00361 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24529.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 1 October 2020
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.