Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Thomastown (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Thomastown (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ladys Well (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.35284, -8.45151
- SMR number
- LI056-027----
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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; 'Lady's Well on 1928 edition of 6-inch O.S. map, not on 1840 map. A clear bubbling spring in a grove of old whitethorn trees. Rounds are still made. The water cures sore eyes. Rags and small religious objects are left as offerings. Legends: The well moved from the place called "Sunday's Well" (LI056-026----) in the same field. The water will not boil. A blind man who was being led to another well recognised the presence of this well and was cured at it'.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.