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Ritual site - holy well

Alleen (Ryan) (Rathlynin Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Alleen (Ryan) (Rathlynin Par.), County Tipperary South, 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
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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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

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.

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