Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloneybrien, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloneybrien
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 52.86668, -8.37993
- SMR number
- TN019-021----
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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
Situated in a hollow in marshy upland area. A natural spring well enclosed by a concrete surround which encloses a rectangular area (dims. 3m x 2.85m x 1m D). A stream flows out from the S face of the well which appears to be disused. There are no votive offerings visible.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.