Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Tyrrellstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tyrrellstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberara Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberara
- Coordinates
- 53.01505, -7.01551
- SMR number
- KD035-003002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a graveyard (KD035-003003-) c. 14m S of a ruined church (KD035-003001-). According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 70) '… there was formerly a pattern held (at the well) on the 24th of June, St John's Day …'. A natural spring lies in a hollow (diam. 10m; D 1.6m) which is defined by a loosely built dry stone wall. A holy tree (KD035-003004-) stands at the SW edge of the well. (Jackson 1979-80, 156)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 27 November 2013
References
Jackson, P. 1979-80 The holy wells of Co. Kildare. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 16, 133-61.
Herity, M. (ed.) 2002 Ordnance Survey Letters Kildare. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.