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Ritual site - holy well

Ballyfroota, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Ballyfroota, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyfroota
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tobereendoney
Latest-edition OS map
Tobereendoney (1928)
Coordinates
52.38907, -8.38188
SMR number
LI049-101----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Ó Danachair (1955, 207) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Toberreendoney on 1840 map. A small well in a little grove of whitethorn trees, which overhang the well. Rounds are still made, but not very often. Rags are still hung on the bushes as offerings'. In 1838 the Ordnance Survey recorded the following about this holy well; 'Tobar Rígh an Domhnaigh [Well of the King of Sunday], fons regis Sabbathi. West of Clochanavarra [LI049-102----]' (OSNB Ballingarry Parish, 196).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 03 July 2019

References

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.

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.

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