Christian Sites

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for resear Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for resear Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Marked similarly on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a boggy hollow. Rectangular depression (dims 2m E-W; 1.4m N-S), now dry and surrounded by a drystone wall in a clump of alders. There is no evidence of, or knowledge of, veneration. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

At base of steep wooded precipice. A natural spring, no visible masonry, running into a lake. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lo Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Some 85m NW of, and upslope from, an oratory (GA081-011001-). This well, correctly Tobar Éinne, is a natural spring delimited by an oval drystone wall (1.17m by 0.8m) with an entrance at SE. According to Killanin (1947, 122) it is resorted to for diseas Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about Toberedmond; ‘ “Toberedmond” on 1840 map. This well is marked in Gothic letters on the map, but there seems to be no evidence that it was ever regarded as a holy well’. Compiled by: Caimin Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘Tobereen on 1840 map, changed to “Tobar Fhionain” on 1928 edition. “The name of this well it would appear is Tobereen and not Toberania. Perhaps you could say whether it ought Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Holy well known locally as ‘Tobereenavoher’ in the townland of Callaras Oughter (Callraí Uachtarach/callow of the wood) in the parish of Kilmoe (Cill Mua) in the barony of Carbery West. Presumably a natural spring, dry when visited. Possibly still in h Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated towards the botttom of a severe E and SE-facing slope, just above the W bank of the N-S River Blackwater. It is marked as Tobairín Beannuighthe – Blessed Well – on 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and similarly on the 1840 ed. It is described loc Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Holy well described by O’Hare (2000, 62) as; ‘Toberreendoney on Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh (Well of the King Of Sunday or Sunday’s Well (Ó Danachair 1958, 153), is recorded on both editions of the OS maps. The site is marked by a small depression, from whic Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for resear Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Located on the E bank of a S-N stream in an undulating landscape. A natural spring rising from the rock was a place of pilgrimage until the 1850s, when a pattern was held on Garland Sunday, the last Sunday in July, to celebrate Lughnasa until the venerat Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]