Archaeology and monuments in County Limerick
The Discover Alone map has 7,452 archaeology and monuments in County Limerick, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Wedge tomb in GarranbaneWedge tombIn 1998, O Riordain found a hidden wedge tomb in rough pasture near Glenstal Abbey. Workers at Glenstal Castle later…
Watercourse in BallinfreeraWatercourseClear water once cut through wet pasture near the River Maigue, leaving a meandering mark still visible in grass and…
Urn burial in KnockadeaUrn burialKnockadea holds three cinerary urns and two bone vaults, marking it as a repeated burial place rather than a one-time…
Urn burial in GlenareeUrn burialIn 1934, Michael Horgan unearthed an urn while digging potatoes for Mr John Ryan, revealing a brittle vessel holding…
Turret (site of)BuildingIn reclaimed pasture, at N end of hill crest with commanding view in all directions. Low semi-circular sod-covered…
TuamanirvoreWedge tombTuamanirvore was a wedge tomb in County Limerick, Ireland, destroyed around 1895. Known locally as The Big Man's Grave…
Town WallTown defencesBlossom’s Gate still stands as the only surviving entrance to Kilmallock, its three-floored limestone tower guarding…
Town WallTown defencesNo visible wall remains to mark the Viking boundary, yet maps from 1590 to 1691 draw lines through streets still walked…
Tory HillHillfortTory Hill rises suddenly from low-lying County Limerick terrain, offering extensive views and overlooking a river to…
TombTomb — unclassifiedSixteen-century limestone fragments still stand scattered across a chancel and chapter house in County Limerick. One…
TombTomb — effigialGeoffrey de Marisco founded the Hospital of Aney in 1215, and his limestone effigy still occupies the northeast corner…
TombTomb — chest tombWalter Coppinger built the chest tomb in 1627 for Alison Haly and John Verdon, carving Elizabethan figures and winged…
ToberreendoneyHoly wellToberreendoney is a circular stone-lined holy well in County Limerick, dedicated to Our Lady and marked by a small…
ToberreendoneyHoly wellToberreendoney is a small holy well hidden in heather half a mile from the nearest house, where flagstones still…
ToberpatrickHoly wellToberpatrick is a hidden holy well in County Limerick where brambles now strangle the stone steps that once led…
TobernarughillaHoly wellTobernarughilla is a holy well at the west end of a Limerick pasture, reduced to an oval cattle pond where briars…
TobermurryHoly wellTobermurry is a dry holy well in a County Limerick woodland, its shallow stone chamber waiting beside a pond for water…
TobermurryHoly wellTobermurry is a living holy well in County Limerick where visitors still make rounds, tie rags to trees and leave cups…
TobermurryHoly wellTobermurry holds a dry, sub-circular well tucked into woodland beside a pond, its low stone wall and two entrance steps…
Toberlaghteen Holy WellHoly wellToberlaghteen Holy Well in County Limerick is a ritual site where an ash tree overhangs a shallow pool beside a dry…
TobergobinetHoly wellTobergobinet is a small mortared roadside well in County Limerick whose water flows north into the Camogue. It keeps…
ToberfantanHoly wellToberfantan is a clear spring well in Doon village, dedicated to St Fintan of Dun Bleisce. It once attracted devotion…
TobereendoneyHoly wellTobereendoney is not a true well but the mouth of a man-made underground passage in County Limerick, still holding…
TobereendoneyHoly wellTobereendoney, the Well of the King of Sunday, hides in a whitethorn grove where branches still drape the water and…
ToberbreedyHoly wellToberbreedy is a slow spring lined with stone in an open field behind Kilbreedy church ruin. People stopped praying at…
ToberbreediaHoly wellToberbreedia is a holy well in County Limerick, Ireland, where five stones still mark the rounds path beside old…
Toberanearla (1924).Holy wellToberanearla is a forgotten holy well hidden in a Limerick pasture, where loose stones still guard a muddy depression…
The Heros GraveCairn — unclassifiedThe Hero's Grave was a small stone mound beside an ancient roadway in County Limerick, marked on maps before the land…
Structure in LoughgurStructureKnockroe Hill still holds a hidden stone ring beside Lough Gur, joining a nearby circle and two burial mounds in a…
Structure in LoughgurStructureThree stone enclosures climb the northwest slope of Carraig Aille Hill, their irregular walls built from huge uprights…
Structure in Grange (smallcounty By.)StructureNo map shows the place, yet a faint magnetic arc still curves through pasture west of Lough Gur. It may have been a…
Stone GravesCistStone Graves marks two buried cist graves beside Emlygrennan Church in County Limerick. They disappeared from sight and…
Stone CirclesSettlement platformThree stone circles stood submerged in Lough Gur until drainage exposed them, suggesting a hidden crannog platform…
Stone CirclesStone circle — embankedStone Circles stands as a vast embanked ring on a low rise near Lough Gur, where one hundred and thirteen contiguous…
Stone CirclesStone circleFifteen upright stones still mark a seventeen-metre circle beside Lough Gur, though the broad southern gap and missing…
Stone CircleHouse — prehistoricKnockadoon holds the largest stone circle in the region, a broad ring of two concentric stone lines surrounding a…
Stone CircleEnclosureKnockadoon still holds Circle J, a thirty-metre double ring where Neolithic people lived before burying their dead…
Stone CircleStructureStone Circle occupies the northern shore of Lough Gur beneath Knockfennell Hill, joined by a nearby ringfort, cave…
Stone CircleFairy fort / stone ringfortStone Circle is a ruined cashel in the former Deer Park of Cahir Guillamore House, County Limerick. Its grass-covered…
St. Peters & St. Pauls WellHoly wellSt. Peters & St. Pauls Well in County Limerick appears on an 1840 map as a clear spring beneath a small stone…
St Patricks WellHoly wellSt. Patrick's Well in County Limerick is a living pilgrimage site where people still walk nine rounds, drink water for…
St. Patricks WellHoly wellSeven pebbles mark the circuits, each one a prayer returned to the hill, while the blackthorn still circles the water…
St. Patricks WellHoly wellSt Patrick's Well in County Limerick still flows beside two ash trees strung with forgotten beads and medals. Crowds…
St Patricks WellHoly wellSt Patricks Well bubbles beneath a public road in County Limerick, trapped under a sandstone arch marked A.D. 1844.…
St Patricks WellHoly wellSt Patricks Well in County Limerick is a holy spring beside an early ecclesiastical enclosure, celebrated for curing…
St Patricks WellHoly wellSt Patricks Well in County Limerick is a small stone-lined hole where people once drank for coughs and colds. Legend…
St Patricks WellHoly wellSt Patricks Well in County Limerick remains a living ritual site where coins still drop into the water and devotionalia…
St. Patricks WellHoly wellSt. Patrick's Well in County Limerick gave Patrickswell its name and drew crowds to its open water beneath a great elm…
St. Patricks WellHoly wellSt. Patricks Well in County Limerick was a deep shaft supplying water to a monastery, yet local memory holds that it…
St. Patricks SeatRitual site — holy/saint's stoneSt. Patricks Seat is a small concrete enclosure in County Limerick where five buried stones still break through the…
St Patricks Bed - HachuredBurial moundSt Patricks Bed - Hachured is a burial mound in County Limerick, Ireland. The bed is a semi-circular mound with a scarp…
St. Patricks and St Pauls WellsHoly wellKnocklong hill on the east side holds two or three wells depending on the source, yet the green has swallowed the stone…
St. Nicholas WellHoly wellSt. Nicholas Well in County Limerick is a slow spring trapped inside a brick cupola, marked by a slab begging the saint…
St. Moluas WellHoly wellSt. Molua’s Well sits on wet marshy land south of Ardagh, where parishioners still walk rounds on the eve of the…
St Moluas WellHoly wellSt Moluas Well in County Limerick remains the county's best known holy spring, drawing pilgrims to Emlygrennan for six…
St Margarets WellHoly wellSt Margarets Well is a small open well in a cottage garden in County Limerick, Ireland. People once performed stations…
St. Lukes WellHoly wellSt. Lukes Well is a lost ritual site in County Limerick, Ireland, now hidden beneath a disused concrete water trough in…
St. Kierans WellHoly wellSt. Kierans Well in County Limerick is a stone-hooded spring where people still drop seven pebbles, pray for seven…
St. Kierans WellHoly wellKilfinny’s St. Kierans Well is a small stone-lined hollow outside the graveyard wall, still used on 9th September for…
St Johns Well (Site of)Holy wellSt Johns Well in County Limerick is no longer a worship site but a hospital waterworks, its sacred rounds forgotten and…