Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Fawn (leitrim By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fawn (leitrim By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobereendoney Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobereendoney Well
- Coordinates
- 53.98379, -8.05467
- SMR number
- LE027-136----
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
Located on the E bank of a S-N stream in an undulating landscape. A natural spring rising from the rock was a place of pilgrimage until the 1850s, when a pattern was held on Garland Sunday, the last Sunday in July, to celebrate Lughnasa until the veneration was transferred to a well (LE027-079003-) closer to Kiltoghert church (MacNeill 1962, 606). There is local knowledge of this well was venerated up to the 1940s.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
References
MacNeill, M. 1962 The festival of Lughnasa. London. Oxford University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.