Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Pottlerath, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pottlerath
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberaniddaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernadaun
- Coordinates
- 52.61985, -7.43574
- SMR number
- KK022-004----
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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
According to Holahan (1883, 107-8), 'It is said that many miraculous cures have been effected from time immemorial at the holy well called Tobernadaun, near Kilmanagh'. He gives several examples of people who believed they were cured at the holy well, including a man with a running sore on his leg, three men who suffered from 'the ague', a type of fever, and a sickly child (ibid. 108). On the OS 6-inch map (1839 ed. and 1899-1900 revision) two wells are indicated beside each other, on the later revision the more northerly well is a annotated as a spring with a stream running S from it, while the other is annotated as the holy well. The holy well is no longer visible above ground, though the spring is apparent as a hollow (Digitalglobe satellite imagery, viewed 17 May 2021).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 May 2021
References
Holahan, Rev. J. 1883 Notes on the antiquities of the united parishes of Ballycallan, Kilmanagh and Killaloe. Transactions of the Ossory Archaeological Society 3, part 1, 81-122.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.