Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballymacshaneboy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacshaneboy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberreendoney
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberreendoney (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.32001, -8.58667
- SMR number
- LI055-020----
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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; 'Toberreendoney on 1840 map. A small well about two feet by three feet at mouth. Small flagstones projecting from the dry stone walling which lines the well holds cups and other drinking vessels. The well is in a space about twenty feet in diameter, surrounded by an earth bank, three to four feet high and four feet thick at bottom. Rounds are still made. The water cures sore eyes. Rags and religious objects are left as offerings. This well is among the heather on the mountain side, about half a mile from the nearest house'.
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
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- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.