Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ahaveheen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ahaveheen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberhoran
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberhoran (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.38195, -8.93054
- SMR number
- LI045-044----
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
In low-lying level pasture; River Deel runs E-W to S of site and smaller stream runs N-S to W. Sub-circular depression (c. 1m N-S; c. 2m E-W; D c. 2m) with outflow stream running S into River Deel. Pipes inserted into well in recent times source water for nearby farm. In mid-1950s reported to be seldom visited though 'formerly very popular' (Ó Danachair 1955, 205). Water said to cure sore eyes and other ailments (ibid.). According to O'Donovan known as Tobar hOdhrain (St Oran's well) (OSNB).
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
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.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.