Christian Sites

At a bend in a small stream valley, the stream flows into the River Nore c. 600m to the NE. It is located c. 220m NW of a church (KK014-056001-) and graveyard (KK014-056002-). According to the OS Letters (1839) this holy well was called, ‘Tobar a Chroin Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

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On a slight knoll on a terrace on valley side, in rolling grassland. There are good views in all directions. The holy well is known as ‘Toberadrugh’ or the Hermit’s Well, the hermit being associated with St Fiachra whose feast day was celebrated on the 8 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Cut into a S-facing slope, in improved, gently undulating pasture. Depicted and named on all OS historic mapping as ‘Toberagee’ and meaning ‘well of prayer’ or ‘praying well’ having been anglicised from the Irish ‘Tober an Guí’. Frost (1 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Toberagilladuff/Tobar an Ghiolla Dhuibh: The site of this holy well is now occupied by a small water reservoir. Ó Danachair (1960, 77) recorded a vague tradition of former devotions and the water reputedly cured stomach ailments. The medieval parish chu Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Toberagrahig/Tobar an Ghrathaigh: Located in sloping woodland on the N shore of Kenmare Bay, this is a rock-cut hemispherical hollow, .4m in diameter. It is locally regarded as a holy well and curative powers are attributed to its waters. The OSNB record Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On the S side of a channellised stream, at base of gentle NE-facing slope in a small park at the junction of the main Clonmel-Cahir road and the Clonmel-Marlfield road. Well structure consists of a mass concrete hood (L 2.05m; Wth 1.8m; H 0.87m above gro Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Toberahoonanara/Tobar an Chapaill: This well is located immediately SW of Caherboshina village, at the foot of the E slopes of Lateevemore. It is now used as a water source for domestic or farmyard purposes and is provided with a rough, concrete surround Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as Toberakilleen – the well of the childrens’ burial ground. It is situated in a hollow (diam. c. 8m; max. D 1.8m at S) on a N-facing slope with an E-W stream c. 150m to the N Monument Type: […]

Described by Wilde (1850, 46) as a, ‘sacred spring called Tober-aulin (Beautiful Well)’. On the NE bank of a small, NW-flowing tributary of the River Boyne, with a second holy well (KD002-002—-) c. 500m to the NNE. A small bridge (built 1849) immediate Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In a large marshy depression adjacent to a field boundary, 235m NE of a church (GA099-114001-). Apart from one or two dressed stones projecting from the field boundary, no visible surface trace survives. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 646) The above descript Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Toberallen Church (WM012-180—-) and churchyard (WM012-180002-) lies 75m to NE. The stream running N-S which marks the townland boundary with Knockatee lies 5m to W. Two wells are depicted at this location of the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and the well to Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer