Christian Sites

Situated at the N edge of a plateau overlooking the Blackwater river valley to the N. Tobar Mocuda, which was venerated in May until the late 19th century (OS Name Books), is a pond (diam. 3.5m; D 0.5m) adjacent to the NW edge of rath (WA028-002001-). C Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Located on the SW bank of a small NW-SE stream, c. 50m SE of the bridge (MO031-105—-) and c. 80m NNE of Maheross church (MO031-035001-). A well close to the bridge is depicted on an illustration of Essex Castle (MO031-034001-) from 1736, albeit on the Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

In NW quadrant of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA043-080001-). This well was noted by O’Donovan in 1839 (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 46) and is marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map; on 3rd ed. (1930), the words ‘Site of’ are appended. No visible surface Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Located in a thicket of blackthorn in rough wet pasture, bordered to SW by a field drain.This holy well is named ‘Tober Kevna’ on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps. A drystone wall (Wth 0.5m; H 0.8m) encloses a roughly circular space (2.5m NE–SW; 2. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Situated on a level low-lying landscape. It is described as ‘Tober Lasair’ in gothic script on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It survives as a natural spring surrounded by stones with the foundations of a small structure (dims c. 1m squ Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Situated in low-lying pasture, with limited views, c. 36m to SE of a stream. Within flat cemetery (WM020-074—-). Annotated ‘Tober Lastragh’on the 1837 OS 6-inch map. Monument described in 1976 as a largely dried up well defined by a concrete surr Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Possible holy well annotated in Gothic script as ‘Tober Luibe’ on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 13 July 2018 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On the NW-facing slope of a slight ridge in a low-lying landscape. A well where the pattern was held between 15th Aug. and 8th Sep. was venerated in the 19th century (O’Flanagan 1928, 238; D’Alton 1845, 84), but it is no longer visible. Church (RO001-009 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Located in mixed woodland at the bottom of an E-facing slope. The name ‘Tober Murray’ on the OS 6-inch maps is properly Tober Mhuire – Mary’s Well (OSNB No. 84, 15), and there was a pattern at this well until c. 1800 (ibid.). However, the memory Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

On the roadside on N side of the Dooghta River valley. A pair of holy wells, fed from a small stream, which are dedicated to Muire (GA026-009—-) and Fechín (GA026009001-). They are delimited by a rectangular drystone structure, E-shaped on plan (L 3.4 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On rough land 0.5km S of the Doire Bhriosc road just outside the former limits of cultivated land. Known locally as Tobar Phádraig, it consists of a small natural water-filled hollow with a diminutive drystone canopy over it. Circa 3.5m to NW is a natur Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Marked as a single well on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as two pm the 1915 ed. but it is described as Tober Reeoge – the well of the young king – on both. It is situated in a low-lying landscape and is described locally as two circular wells, on Monument […]