Christian Sites

Possible holy well depicted as ‘Tobernamasal’ on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map bit not indicated on later revised editions of the OS maps. Situated at the base of Kinturk Hill on the demesne lands of Kinturk House. Well is enclosed by flagstones and accor Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Situated towards the head of a flat-bottomed N-S valley, with an E-W stream c. 40m to the S. This is a natural spring, now overgrown, where a pattern was formerly held on August 15th, according to J. O’Donovan writing c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1929, 79). It Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

This is marked on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps as ‘Tobernamolt’ (Tobar na Molt – well of the wethers).Situation and Description: This well is approached by a path through the fields. This site consists of a small rectangular enclosure (KE021-115001-) whi 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

Located in KILCORNEY, County CLARE. At the base of a SE-facing slope on the floor of Kilcorney Valley, in a craggy area covered with trees on the edge of extensively reclaimed pasture. Named ‘Tobernanangel’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and recorded as Tobar na n-Aing Archaeological Survey Reference: CL009-029001- […]

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

Immediately S of a public road. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision as ‘Tobernanaspog’. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 361) mentions this well as, ‘Tubbernanaspug, or the Well of the Bishops’. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Located on the S side of a crossroad in Aghagower village, immediately outside the wall of a graveyard (MA088-063002-), which encloses a medieval church (MA088-063001-) and round tower (MA088-063003-). The graveyard wall kinks around the well. The well Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

A slight depression just beside a small stream probably indicates the location of the destroyed well. (O’ Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 7) The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly’ (Dublin: Stationery Offic Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In a broad flat river valley, c. 60m N of the Nuenna River and c, 16m S of the road. According to the OS Letters (1839), the well, ‘in the Townland of Tobar na Peisté to which it gave its name signifying the Well of the Worm in which it is said people w Monument […]

Tobernaplaw/Tobar na Plá (The Well of the Plague): A pool of stagnant water marks the site of this well which formerly consisted of a spring with a small stream flowing S from it (OSNB Kildrum, 32). It lies about 140m to NW of the early church site at K Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Ó Danachair (1955, 205) recorded the following details about Tobar na Róimhe [Well of Rome]; ‘Tobernarova on 1840 map. The well described in OSNB as “about eighteen inches (0.45m) deep, twelve inches [0.3m] wide at its mouth and twenty-four [0.61m] at Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer