Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kiltanon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltanon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberbreedia
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberbreedia (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.87964, -8.79144
- SMR number
- CL027-025----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
At the base of a W-facing slope, in a wet and scrubby oblong depression, immediately E of the Kiltanon River. It is depicted and named as ‘Toberbreedia’ on all OS historic mapping. According to Curry (OSL, vol. 2, 1839, 283), ‘there is another holy well dedicated to St Bridget in the townland of Kiltannon, at which stations still continue to be performed’. This well is not visible at ground level and is likely to have been blocked up. A tree has fallen across this area in recent times.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 10 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.