Christian Sites

At the foot of hill which rises immediately to the S, the slope continues to fall gradually northward. In wet terrain in rough pasture. A roughly circular well (1.7m x 1.55m) composed of dry-stone walling (T 0.5m) with an exit channel to the N. The chann Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

This is a spring well for a stream which runs eastward parallel to the River Tar which it eventually joins. The well is c. 70m N of the River Tar. It is in low-lying terrain at the base of a ridge which rises to the NE of a stream and runs SE-NW, paralle Monument Type: […]

Marked on the 1837 and 1924-5 eds of the OS 6-inch map as at the centre of a cluster of buildings, but only described as ‘Toberiheen’ in italic lettering on the latter. It is situated at the bottom of an E-facing slope. This is a natural spring (diam. c. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Following a description of ‘Brae-ag-ogue’ well (KK012-059004-), Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 372) describes another well, ‘”Lady Well”‘, which, ‘is about half a mile away, on the slope of Shragh hill, but the tradition of its having ever been holy, is lost’. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated within a hollow at the base of a steep N-facing ridge are two adjoining holy wells dedicated to St. Patrick and St. Brigid respectively, within a small, square walled enclosure (dim. 11m). Patterns are still held here annually on June 29th. The Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated in low-lying wet pasture, at the base of a hill that rises to the W. Not marked on 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Indicated on the 1912 edition with the designation ‘Toberachunntais’. Well head is now covered by a modern concrete pump house. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Indicated on the 1835 and the 1938 ‘OS 6-inch’ maps. Known variously as St. Mairead’s well, The Lord’s well, Sunday well and Toberdoney. Located in swampy ground in a field known as ‘the Srath’ (Coyle 1956, 201-4). It is an oval pool, with dry stone lini Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

At the W-foot of a moderately steep pasture slope, some 35m E of a small SW-flowing stream which feeds the River Barrow to the W. According to O’Donovan writing in the OSL in 1837 (Herity 2002, 127 [114]), ‘The well near the site of the Monastery [KD Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Marked as a holy well only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a S-facing slope. This is a stone-lined depression open to the S. A pattern was held on the 8th of September, but it had been discontinued before the end of the 19th century Monument Type: Ritual site […]

The well is marked but not named on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, but by 1886 it was known as ‘St Brigid’s Well’ (Comerford, 1886). On a very gentle W-slope in tillage and marked by the stump of an elm tree. In 1985 a small, square, unploughed Monument Type: Ritual site […]

At the N end of the landscaped Carton Demesne, c. 240m SSW of a possible nunnery site (KD006-007003-). In 1985, the site could not be located due to dense vegetation cover (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In a slight hollow on a gentle W-facing pasture slope at the W edge of Carton Demesne. A spring well is enclosed by a small square, tent-like structure (dims. L 1.75m N-S; Wth 1.7m; H 1.5m) of well-built mortared-stone, with a pointed-arched opening (Wth Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]