Christian Sites

On W side of a track c. 40m NW of a grave site (GA022-057—-). This well presently consists of a natural spring set in a recess in the roadside field bank. No offerings are visible and the well is now used for watering cattle in the summer. The above d Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

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Located in EANTY MORE, County CLARE. At the head of a NE–SW ravine, on the E side of a roughly N-S running boreen, within a large multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). The land falls very steeply c. 40m to the SW. Indicated and labelled ‘Toberderg’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the Archaeological Survey Reference: […]

Situated at the base of a gentle E-facing slope with good views in all directions and nearby church and graveyard (TN005-005001-/003-) 95m to the W. The holy stone known as St. Dima’s Stone (TN005-007002-) is located a few metres to the E of the holy wel Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

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Located at the bottom of a slight S-facing slope in a fairly level, low-lying landscape. It is described in gothic lettering as Toberdoney derived from Tober Domhnaigh – Sunday’s Well or Church Well – on the 1836 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch maps, Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

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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 […]