Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gortacrank, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortacrank
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberacran
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberacran (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.36191, -8.61997
- SMR number
- LI047-067----
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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; 'Tobereracran on 1840 map. Now a small batch of swamp from which a clear stream flows. "Toberacran. A holy well where there were stations formerly performed, but now it is seldom frequented". OSNB. Not known now as a holy well'.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.