Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballydonohoe (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydonohoe (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberpatrick
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobair Padraigh (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.31443, -8.46401
- SMR number
- LI056-040----
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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; 'Toberpatrick on 1840 map. A small clear well with a good spring, in a small grove of trees. No devotions now, but rounds were made within living memory'.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Dominican friarsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.