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Ritual site - holy well

Ballintober, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Ballintober, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballintober
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Toberbreedia
Latest-edition OS map
Tobar Brighde (1927)
Coordinates
52.35733, -8.40992
SMR number
LI057-001----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Ó Danachair (1955, 207) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Toberbreedia on 1841 map. A small spring in an open field, with some old whitethorn trees. The rounds path is marked by five stones. Rounds are still made, but not often. Formerly much visited, especially on 1st February. Widely known as the "Chincough Well" and said to cure whooping cough in children. The alternative cures were: water was taken from the well to the patient; moss from the well was boiled in milk and the milk drunk; the patient was brought to the well and drank the water there. Legends: A fowler washed his dog in the well and it moved. A treasure buried at the well is guarded by a phantom bull'.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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