Christian Sites

On the E-facing slope of a small N-S stream gorge, S of the public road at the E end of a private garden. Land rising in all directions and the views are very limited. A small stone-lined and covered spring well, opening to the S. The stone-work surround Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Situated on a S-facing slope S of Templemichael church (TN040-017001). A crude, oval-shaped, stone-lined well (dims. 0.4m x 0.65m and 0.6m deep) with a flat stone lintel roof and a retaining wall along the E side. There may have been a corresponding reta Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In flat low-lying grassland. This natural spring well (D 0.65m) is dedicated to St Patrick. It is enclosed by a low rectangular drystone wall (1.95m E-W; 1.3m N-S; H 0.6m). On inspection it was overgrown by grass and there was no indication that it was s Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

On E bank of small river valley in gently rolling terrain, under tillage and pasture. The OS Letters (1839) refer to, ‘a large spring well about a furlong [c. 200m] to the west of Art an Fhiona in the same Townland, which the people know as Tobar Patraig Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Marked on the 1835 and 1913 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘Toberpatrick’ and situated towards the bottom of a low rise. This is a roughly subcircular well (dims c. 1.5m E-W; c. 1m N-S; D 0.4m) enclosed by a stone w Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

Ó Danachair (1955, 208) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘Toberpatrick on 1840 map. A small clear well with a good spring, in a small grove of trees. No devotions now, but rounds were made within living memory’.Compiled by: Caimin O’ Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Marked on all editions of the OS 6-inch map. Traditionally said to have been created by St. Patrick on his journey through Tireragh. The well is now enclosed within a concrete well house. (OS Letters 1836, 315 (130)); ITA Survey 1942-4) Compiled by: Pat Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Situated on a steep NE-facing slope down to a N-S stream. Tobar Chuain is a stone-lined well (dims. 3.05m x 2.45m; D 1.75m), with an ash tree growing from its walls, NE of the church site (WA003-051001-) within a D-shaped area defined by stone walls. A p Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Located in the bottom of a N-S valley with a stream c. 20m to the W and c. 100m N of the junction with a larger E-W stream. Marked similarly as ‘Toberquan’ on the 1840 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map, it is a natural spring, now completely overgrown an Monument Type: Ritual […]

Ó Danachair (1955, 208) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘Toberreendoney on 1840 map. A small well about two feet by three feet at mouth. Small flagstones projecting from the dry stone walling which lines the well holds cups and othe Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Toberreendoney/Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh: This site is alternatively known as St Darerca’s well after the patroness of the parish (Delap 1911, 403). It is located a short distance W of Laharan holy well (KE079-080—-), on the lower S slopes of Coombe Hil Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Toberreendoney/Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh [Well of the King of Sunday]: A spring well located in a rock cavity on the E side of the stream which forms the boundary between the townlands of Gortacurraun and Farrannacarriga. A small cross-inscribed stone is lo Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer