Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clooney South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooney South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberlonan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberlonan (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.93632, -9.20381
- SMR number
- CL016-105003-
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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
In a small hollow in marshy pasture and to the S of the Ennistimon to Corrofin road. Named ‘Toberlonan’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Recorded by O’Donovan (1839) as ‘Tobar Lonain or Saint Lonan’s Well, at which Stations are still performed and the cure of diseases of the eyes and limbs sought, but on no particular day’ (Comber 1997, 100).
The well is defined by a rectangular stone wall (1.5m x 1.5m; H 0.9m) that has been covered over with concrete blocks and planks. A rowan tree is growing from one side of it. According to local information, it was in use up to the end of the 1960s and its water was used as a cure for sore eyes. The well may be associated with the medieval church (CL016-105001-), graveyard (CL016-105002-) and possible ecclesiastical enclosure (CL016-105004-) located c. 180m to its ENE.
The following image had been uploaded: CL016-105003-_01jpg. Blocked-up holy well
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 24 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.