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

According to Holahan (1883, 107-8), ‘It is said that many miraculous cures have been effected from time immemorial at the holy well called Tobernadaun, near Kilmanagh’. He gives several examples of people who believed they were cured at the holy well, in 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

Thobar a Nuoraun or Tobar an Uarain, meaning well of the cold spring was described in 1840 as following; ‘This well is placed in a low marshy field. It was once esteemed sacred by the inhabitants who paid religious visitations to it, and they affirm t Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Part of na Seacht Teampaill. This well, correctly Tobar an Spioraid Naoimh, is situated to W of the path from Teampall Bhreacáin (GA110-010001-) to Teampall an Phoill (GA110-010003-), about halfway between these churches. It consists of a disused spring Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Toberantappul/Tobar an Chapaill: A spring well situated at the base of the W slopes of Lateevemore. It was formerly esteemed as a holy well and its name is explained by a legend which tells of a man who made the rounds on horseback; both man and beast dr Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Natural spring well situated in large waterlogged hollow depression (dims. 13m N-S; 8m E-W; D 1.2m) on the S bank of the river Suir in flat grassland with good views in all directions. Modern concrete slabs over spring well, no evidence of any votive off Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Situated in a quarry (dims. c. 11m x c. 7m; D 1.5m) on a severe S-facing slope, and c. 110m NE of the parish church of Kilgobnet (WA030-001001-). A single lintel is visible in the edge of the quarry, but the area is dry and filled with silt. A pattern wa Monument Type: Ritual site […]

Described in gothic lettering as Toberaphuca – the Ghost’s well – on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope. It was on the W side of a N-S road, but it is not known if it was venerated. It is Monument Type: Ritual […]

In level pasture, adjacent to a stream/drain. There is a farmstead to S and W. This holy well is named ‘Toberara’ on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps, and is recorded in the OS Letters (1838, 196 (102)) as ‘Tober a Righ’. The well, now dried up, Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

In a graveyard (KD035-003003-) c. 14m S of a ruined church (KD035-003001-). According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 70) ‘… there was formerly a pattern held (at the well) on the 24th of June, St John’s Day …’. A natural spring lies in a hollow (diam. 10m; Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

On the lowermost north-western slopes of Knocknashee Mountain. A spring well revetted by a drystone wall and roofed by lintels. There is no evidence of recent veneration at this well. It may be the well which Wood-Martin (1892, 355-6, n. 1) mentioned in Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer