Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballingarry, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballingarry
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Peters & St. Pauls Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- SS. Peter & Pauls Well (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.38317, -8.37306
- SMR number
- LI049-108----
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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, 206-7) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'St Peter and St Paul's Well on 1840 map. A clear spring covered by a small stone structure. No rounds or devotions now, but rounds were made and rags hung on an old thorn tree beside the well within living memory. The thorn tree is now gone. Legend: The well moved when clothes were washed in'.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.