Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Leamaneh North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leamaneh North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermarteen (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.98735, -9.13923
- SMR number
- CL016-032004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated 60m SE of Leamaneh Castle (CL016-032002-/CL016-032003-) and just outside the walled garden (CL016-032001-). Indicated on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and named ‘Tobermarteen’ on the 1916 edition. Listed as a blessed well opposite Leamaneh Castle (Doolan 1991, 169) and named ‘Tobar Mhartáin’. A large trapezoidal area (2.7m E-W; 2.4m N-S; D 1m, deepest at E) with drystone walls one of which (at E) is curved. It is covered over by a large slab. There are no local traditions of a holy well here. The well appears to have fed the fish-ponds (CL016-032010-) within the walled garden to the E.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 November 2018
References
Doolan, L. 1991 Lore and cures and blessed wells. In J. W. O'Connell and A. Korff (eds.), The book of the Burren, 155-71. Tír Eolas, Newtownlynch, Kinvara, Co. Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Gatewayunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Gatewayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.