Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Tobercocka, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tobercocka
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberchocha
- Coordinates
- 53.15982, -7.00758
- SMR number
- KD022-015----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Now a fenced off oval pond (diams. 4m N-S; 2m E-W; D 0.8m) in a roadside garden, with some stone lining visible at the S-end. Shares the townland's name, and, according to Fitzgerald, (1919, 258), ‘Though not now resorted to for cures, this is a Blessed Well … .’, while Jackson (1979-80, 159) records that the well was resorted to for a cure for mental illness, and a patron was held there on March 8th.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 06 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.