Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Stackarnagh, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stackarnagh
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernasool
- Coordinates
- 54.96961, -7.85024
- SMR number
- DG052-018----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as 'Tobar na Súl, "the Well of the Eyes," is the name of a Holy Well on the top of Cnoc a' Toighe, to the south of Churchill. Stations used to be made here till about 1860. Evidently the well-was regarded as a cure for sore eyes. Colmcille, when pursued on one occasion, is said to have jumped from the hill at the well to the rock, behind Churchill Railway Station, where the print of his two feet are still to be seen. Near this spot, where the footprints are, occur the remains of an old church with a font cut in the rock' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 155). (Ó Muirgheasa No. 80)
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision : 04 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.