Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilbreedy (coshma By., Bruree Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbreedy (coshma By., Bruree Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39204, -8.62161
- SMR number
- LI047-044----
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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, 210) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Saint Bridget's Well" local name. Not on maps. A small clear pool, roughly lined with large stones. One large stone is set on edge beside the well. On the roadside, with a stile leading in to the well. Rounds are still made, but by few. Formerly very popular, especially for the cure of sore eyes'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 03 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.