Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Alleen (ryan) (rathlynin Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Alleen (ryan) (rathlynin Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh
- Coordinates
- 52.53053, -8.09916
- SMR number
- TS059-024002-
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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
In improved pasture, on a NE-facing slope, just above a steep break of slope. The well is defined as a sunken area (dims. c. 3m NNE-SSW; 1.75m ESE-WNW; D 0.4m) (long axis NNE-SSW) with a deeper hole within the SSW area which is most likely to be the source. According to local information, the people of the area took turns to clean the well and took pride in it. There is a mature beech tree c. 11m to the S and according to local information this is called the 'Coola tree'. According to O'Flanagan (1930, 253), 'In the townland of Alleen-Ryan is the site of the old Church called Teampull Mhic Duach and near it a holy well called Tobar Mhic Duach which is still visited by a few pilgrims on Saturdays and crowds on Good Fridays.'
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.