Christian Sites

Toberreendoney/Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh (Sunday Well: Well of the King of Sunday) A spring now enclosed by a concrete container. Rounds were made up until about 1910, chiefly on Sundays (Ó Danachair 1960, 76).See attached photographs of Toberreendoney, ta Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In level pasture on W side of stream. One of two adjacent wells (LI045-029002-) which are no longer apparent. According to Ó Danachair (1955, 211) ‘only one, locally called “the blessed well”, is known now. There are no devotions’. According to local in Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Ó Danachair (1955, 213) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘Toberreendoney on 1840 map. A circular stone-lined well, on the roadside. Over it is a small statue of Our Lady in a small wooden niche, and a rough wooden cross. Devotions ar Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Holy well described by Ó Danachair as following; ‘ “Toberregan” on 1840 map. A slight trickle of water issuing from the eroded river bank. No devotions now, but rounds were made formerly. The water cured headaches. Locally called “Egan’s Well” ‘ (Ó Dan Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Described in gothic script as Toberrevagh on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and located on a NE-facing slope with a small NW-SE stream c. 110m to the NE. The name – Tobar Riabhabh – means the dark, swarthy well (pers. comm. C. Ó Crualaoich) Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

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 a small natural depression at N limits of a field system (GA028-021—-). A spring well enclosed by a roughly rectangular stretch of natural rock outcrop (NE-SW; L6m, Wth 2.3m) opening out to SW. There is a limekiln c. 50m to S. The above description Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

On a shelf on the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge, and attached to a lay-by on the S side of a WNW-ESE public road. A rectangular well (dims 1.15m x 1.1m; D 0.5m) is surrounded by a concrete wall. There is no evidence of veneration. Rath (RO022-05602 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Some 100m N of a church (GA108-102—-), on the N bank of a stream. Named ‘Toberros’ on the 1838 edition and 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch maps. According to the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 46), some bushes were growing over this well ‘ Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Located in ASTEE WEST, County KERRY. This well is marked on the 1841-42 and 1914 OS maps as Toberruane (Tobar Eoin). The well is also known locally as St Owens or St Senans well.Situation and Description: This well is a small stone-lined pool with some whitethorn bushes overhanging it T Archaeological Survey Reference: KE002-033—- Data […]

At NW end of Salrock graveyard (GA010-008002-). This well, correctly Tobar Salroc, is indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map but was evidently gone by time of 2nd ed. (1896), when the words ‘Site of’ are appended. No visible surface trace survives. (Tully Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Situated on flat low-lying land with river Brosna 160m to the S and Tisaran Church (OF022-004—) 690m to SW. Holy well associated with Sárán who founded a monastery known as Teach Sáráin [Tisaran/House of Saran] in the seventh century (Ó Riain 2011 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer