Christian Sites

Located on the line of a stream/drain, which coincides with the townland boundary. There is rising ground to N−NW, and a flat expanse of wettish land to S. An irregular-shaped pool, c. 10m across, is enclosed within a thicket of reeds, bog myrtle and m Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Some 80m SSW of a church (GA084-127002-), in S sector of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA084-127001-). It consists of a roughly circular water-filled hollow (D c.2m) delimited by traces of a collapsed drystone wall. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 258-9) Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Located in BOULEEVIN, County CLARE. On level improved pasture. Indicated along a former field boundary c. 35m to the SE and named ‘Toberacollure’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch maps. A well site now covered by a low cairn of small stones cleared from surrounding field (L 5m; Archaeological Survey Reference: […]

Ó Danachair (1955, 210) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘Tobereracran on 1840 map. Now a small batch of swamp from which a clear stream flows. “Toberacran. A holy well where there were stations formerly performed, but now it is seld Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and described as Toberacrava in gothic lettering on both. It is located towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. This is a natural spring which is the source of a strong stream running W where the N-S Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

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 […]

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

In pasture, on trackway running NNE-SSW as it traverses a land drain (D c. 3-4m). The well may have been removed when the drain was deepened or may exist under the trackway. It is indicated on both 1st (1840) and 2nd (1906) ed. OS 6-inch map as ‘Toberado Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

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