Christian Sites

This is marked on the 1842 and 1916 OS map as ‘Toberlury’ (Tobar Lúraigh-well of Lúrach (personal name – saint)).Situation and Description: This is a small pool with a good spring and a stream leading away. According to local tradition, the site of a c Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Marked on all OS eds. A wall was erected around the well in the early 1980s. Prior to this, it was surrounded by a number of boulders which served as penitential stations. Six of these are viable close to the field boundary, c. 60m to SSW (CV013-063002-) Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

In undulating pastureland, c. 100m NE of a burial ground (GA116-035—-). On inspection this well consisted of a large circular concrete pipe in the ground, around which there was a loose setting of stones. The well fed a small stream flowing to the NE a Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

In improved pasture, on a NE-facing slope, just above a steep break of slope. The well is defined as a sunken area (dims. c. 3m NNE-SSW; 1.75m ESE-WNW; D 0.4m) (long axis NNE-SSW) with a deeper hole within the SSW area which is most likely to be the sour Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

In a small sheltered hollow surrounded by trees, c. 7m to the NW of NE-SW running road. Named ‘Tobermacduagh’ on the 1838 and 1921 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. On inspection in January 1986, this spring well was enclosed by a D-shaped drystone-bui Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

On a low ridge to the E of a N-S running stream that has been dredged. Named ‘Tobermacduagh’ on the 1838 and 1933 editions of the OS 6-inch maps and depicted on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as a rectangular well located on the SSW edge of a Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Located in KEELHILLA, County CLARE. In hazel forest c. 14m to the NE of ‘St Mac Duagh’s church’ (CL006-023001-). Indicated and named ‘Tobermacduagh’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A holy well fed by a bifurcating stream, one branch of which is overlain by a D-sh Archaeological Survey Reference: CL006-023005- […]

On the S bank of a small stream. This spring well was surrounded by the remains of a rectangular wellhouse (ext. dims. 2.44m E-W; c. 2m N-S) constructed of mortared stone walls (Wth 0.46m-0.53; max. ext. H 0.5m). The S wall was built against the trunk of Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

At the foot of a steep S-facing slope in rough pastureland. This spring well, named ‘Tobermacduagh’ on the OS 6-inch maps, is defined by an overgrown rectangular drystone chamber (L 3.7m; Wth 3.2m; H 0.9m). It is filled with stones and no relics or votiv Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Some 50m to the S of a possible rath (GA114-057001-). Known locally as the birthplace of St Colman, this spring well is enclosed by a well-preserved ornate octagonal concrete well house which was built in 1912. The entrance is at N. A cross which was ere Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

In an orchard c. 65m SSW of Teampall Mac Duach (GA110-044001-). Known locally as Tobar Mac Duach and described in OS Letters as ‘a deep and cool uaran’ (O’Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 382). It consists of a natural spring, dry at time of visit, which is delim Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Part of the monastic complex of Kilmacduagh, this holy well is at the roadside, c. 200m to the SE of the round tower (GA128-034008-). Dedicated to St Colman Mac Duagh (Fahey 1893, 112), it consists of an overgrown dried-up spring well enclosed by a semic Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]