Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Caherlevoy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherlevoy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.32904, -9.18513
- SMR number
- LI052-008----
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
No visible surface trace of site described by Ó Danachair (1955, 211) as 'a small well in a little grove of whitethorn ... where rounds are still made, especially in may'. It was dedicated to St Ita (ibid.). Well was at side of public road but there is now no indication of its precise location.
See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00477 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/30989 and F025.21.00476 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17082.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 2 October 2020
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fia1 mi
- Kiln - lime1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrow2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.