Christian Sites

Marked on the 1841-42 and 1914 OS maps as ‘Toberelton’ (Tobar Eiltín – St Elton’s Well).Situation and Description: Toberelton has now been completely covered over by the landowner. It used to be a marshy hollow in a field where the water would collect i Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

On a slight S-facing slope. Tober Elva, a rectangular well (dims 1.45m x 1.2m) surrounded by a masonry wall with a gate at W is c. 30m W of church (RO027-029001-). The well is listed in the Register of Clonmacnoise (O’Donovan 1856-7, 451), and the well h Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Some 50m SW of a castle (GA115-028—-), on marshy ground. On inspection this natural spring well was covered with stones and overgrown with briars. While there is no known local tradition of veneration here, it is marked on the 1838 and 1920 editions of Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Ó Danachair (1955, 205) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘Toberfantan on 1840 map. A clear spring well about three feet in diameter in a grove of trees in Doon village. No devotions now, but formerly had a day of devotion on 3rd Ja Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Situated at what may be the N extent of the ecclesiastical enclosure (CL016-015001-) around St. Fachtnan’s church/Kilfenora cathedral (CL016-015002-) and c. 110m N of same. Indicated and named ‘Toberfaughtna’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-i Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Toberfeaghna (Tobar Fhiachna) is associated with St. Fiachna (raven) who may be the same Fiachra Goll of Clonfert (Cluain Fearta), Co. Galway who belonged through his father to Dáire to the Uí Bhairrche clan of the Laois/Carlow area (Ó Riain 2011, 316 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On the roadside on N side of the Dooghta River valley. A pair of holy wells, fed from a small stream, which are dedicated to Muire (GA026-009—-) and Fechín (GA026009001-). They are delimited by a rectangular drystone structure, E-shaped on plan (L 3.4 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On seashore on SW side of Omey Island. Known locally as Tobar Feichín, it consists of an irregular hole in the rock situated centrally within a small, low, pear-shaped drystone wall (2.7m by 2.5m), with an entrance at SW. There is an alcove in the inner Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

In rough pasture, located at the base of a small knoll/rise, on the S edge of an expanse of wet ground, which is bordered to NW by a SW-flowing stream. The surrounding terrain is sharply undulating and dotted with small, low drumlin-like rises or hillock Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Situated within the complex of ecclesiastical remains at Kill: it lies within an enclosure (MA085-013008-) 125m NW of the ‘Abbey’ (MA085-013001-). The dedication of this well to the Blessed Virgin Mary is possibly related to the Cistercian connection Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In low-lying pasture. This natural unenclosed spring well is known locally as a holy well. A possible ecclesiastical enclosure (LF011-024—-) lies c. 175m NW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O’Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Marked on the 1841-42 and 1914-15 OS maps as ‘Toberfell’ (Tobar Feille – well of the treachery).Situation and Description: This is a small circular well of pure chalybeat water. According to Smith (1756, 184) Fell’s Well was named after the man who disco Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer