Christian Sites

Tobernagalt/Tobar na nGealt [Well of the Lunatics/Well of the Naked: Gleann na nGealt has been the traditional resort of mad people since at least the 17th century (De Brún 1973, 197-9). They came to drink the water from 2 wells in the valley and to eat Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Tobernagalt/Tobar na nGealt: Gleann na nGealt was the traditional resort of mad people from at least the 17th century (De Brún 1973, 197-9). They came to drink the water from 2 wells in the valley and to eat the watercress. This well consists of a shall Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Located at the bottom of a N-facing slope and c. 400m SE of Killary church (ME012-020—-). This is annotated as ‘Tobernagapple’ (Horse well) in gothic lettering on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map, but John O’Donovan writing in 1836 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Located towards the bottom of a N-facing slope with a small E-W stream c. 70m to the N. A well annotated as ‘Tobernagarran’ in gothic script is depicted on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. Nothing else is known about it, but from aeri Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for resear Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Located c. 10m E of a meandering stream, in rough grazing. The OS Letters (1839) describe this holy well as, ‘Tobar na nGiobog, i.e., the Well of the Rags, from the quantity of rags left there formerly and still by its votaries’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for resear Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In low-lying marshy ground. The well consists of a natural spring enclosed by a circular concrete covering. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo’ compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sle Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In a low-lying area at the base of a steep SW-facing slope with a lot of outcrop protruding from the side of the slope, in woodland with beech trees and rhodadendrons. The spring runs into a little stream to SW which runs SE to join the River Moyle. Ther Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Annotated ‘Tobernagloria’ on the first ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Tobernaglory is a well, now dried up, beside a roadway. The above description was derived from the ‘Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.’ Compiled b Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Ó Danachair (1955, 205) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘Tobernagommaun on 1840 map. “This well is placed in a valley. It is a spring and has a hawthorn bush near it. It was, it is said, a holy well anciently, the cause of its dis Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]