Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballyfroota, County Limerick, Ireland
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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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, 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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.