Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Tobernea Middle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tobernea Middle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernea
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernea
- Coordinates
- 52.36708, -8.58616
- SMR number
- LI047-089----
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
Ó Danachair (1955, 210) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Tobernea (not in Gothic) on 1840 map. "The name of a spring well". OSNB. The only tradition is that the well moved when a woman washed clothes in it'.
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
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.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.