placenamesAthneasy
Áth na nDéise
The historical field-name account records an annual devotional gathering and a belief about the water.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Áth na nDéise · Irish · main form · validated name
- Athneasy · English · main form
Place & story
A well east of the fort
The Athneasy field-name account preserved by Limerick Local Studies places Lady’s Well east of Athneasy Fort. It records stations performed there each year on 25 August, and a belief that people were cured of blindness at the well. That healing claim is recorded tradition, rather than established medical fact. The same account places the fort north of the old church site in Ballinvana Glebe. These descriptions distinguish the well, the fort and the churchyard, rather than treating them as a single monument. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Smallcounty
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Coordinates
- 52.42532, -8.48690
- Mapped area
- 11.69 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1502 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Athneasy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Athneasy field-name account No11: church, fort and Lady’s Well, PDFpages10–11 · Limerick Local Studies, historical field-name records
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.