Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Abbey Island, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbey Island
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberpatrick
- Coordinates
- 54.50917, -8.19614
- SMR number
- DG107-046----
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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
Holy well recorded in 1936 as 'There is another Tobar Patrick on the Abbey Island, in the suburbs of Ballyshannon. No stations are made there now. It is said that long ago pious people used first to make the Lough Derg pilgrimage, then the stations at St. Patrick's Well (DG107-043----), and finish up at Tobar Patrick ' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 144).
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload / revision : 01 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.