Christian Sites

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Marked on the 1841-42 and 1914 OS maps as Tobermartin’ (Tobar Máirtín – St Martin’s Well).Situation and Description: This small clear well comprises a circular area constructed of drystone and flagstones. Close by the well are some thorn trees.Rounds/L Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In woodland copse, in NW quadrant of enclosure (LI036-09201-). Roughly circular pool (2.8m N-S; 2.4m E-W; Max. D 0.65m) with roughly stone lined edges. Outflow drain exits from W side of pool and runs ENE-WSW through enclosing bank of 036-09201—. Accor Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Tobermichael/Tobar Michíl: A spring well now surrounded by a concrete wall. A small cross-inscribed stone stands upright on the parapet of the nearby bridge. The stone is 0.32m high, 0.18m wide and 0.1m thick and its N and S faces bear plain Latin cross Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Ó Danachair (1955, 206) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘Tobermihil on 1840 map. “Tubberveeheel or St Michael’s Well local name, A Blessed Well” OSNB. No tradition has survived’.Compiled by: Caimin O’BrienDate of upload: 03 July 201 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated in low-lying, poorly drained pasture. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map and annotated ‘Tobermíonad’. Monument described in 1970-2 as a small well enclosed by a large rock and a ruined masonry wall. It is one of two natural spr Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In poorly drained, level rushy pasture, c. 0.5m to S of a land drain (long-axis E-W). Depicted and named ‘Tobermochulla’ on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map, the 25-inch OS map and the 1921 edition OS 6-inch map. One of a number of holy wells by tha Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Located in NOUGHAVAL (Burren By.), County CLARE. In an area of undulating rough pasture and outcropping rock within a large field system (CL009-059001-). Indicated and named ‘Tobermogua’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. In 1839 the OS Letters (Comber 1997, 61) recorded that while the Archaeological Survey Reference: CL009-059026- Data […]

On the E side of the Kilkenny to Stonyford road. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch as, ‘Tobermogue’ and on the subsequent 1948 revision as, ‘Pump on Site of Tobermogue’. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 374), ‘Tobermogue, or St. Mog Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Tobermolag/Tobar Mhealaicí [Malachy]: A spring issuing from under a large boulder. A channel in the upper surface of a concrete slab receives the water and concentrates its flow before it spills into a small, stone-lined pool. A stone which stood above Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Tobermalogga/Tobar na Molaige: This site lies in the N corner of a field at the foot of the E slopes of Croaghmarhin, about 400m E of An Raingiléis (KE042-094001-). The focal point of the site was probably the holy well (KE042-100001-) and cross-slab (K Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Holy Well dedicated to St Moling described in 1985 by the Castleisland Archaeological Survey as follows; ‘A spring well still bubbles to the surface here accompanied by a statue to St Molaing. The well is presently enclosed by a plastic fence which is s Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]