Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mortlestown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mortlestown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobereen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar Fhionaín (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.34382, -8.49841
- SMR number
- LI056-009001-
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
Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Tobereen on 1840 map, changed to "Tobar Fhionain" on 1928 edition. "The name of this well it would appear is Tobereen and not Toberania. Perhaps you could say whether it ought to be engraved in old English as a holy well? I think it ought. J.O'D."OSNB. "Tubbereen als. Pauderaugha, The little well for Prayer" do. There is now no tradition of any holy well'.
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.