Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilfinnane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfinnane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Finnanes Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar Fhionáin (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.36362, -8.46375
- SMR number
- LI048-059----
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, 205) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Finnane's Well on 1840 map. "Tobar Fhionain" on 1928 edition. A small clear running spring. No tradition seems to have survived. The nearby road is still called the Well Road. "His well is still in existence, but no stations performed at it. - OSL'
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 03 July 2019
References
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Standing stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.