Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Duntryleague, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Duntryleague
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.39944, -8.34400
- SMR number
- LI049-063005-
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, 208) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'St Patrick's Well on 1840 map. The well is under the roadway, which is carried over on an arch; it is a strong clear bubbling spring. Formerly visited on 17th March. No devotions now. Children visit the well and say "Boil up, St Patrick's Well" or "Bubble up, Blessed Well". Natural spring well underneath public road with sandstone arch and dated keystone A.D. 1844.
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.