Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Tullybradan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullybradan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tober Ronan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Ronan (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.92703, -7.86295
- SMR number
- LE032-066----
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 towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. The well is depicted on the 1835 and 1945 editions of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘Tober Ronan’. It was known as Tober Ronan, and it had a cure for warts (IFC, Schools Collections vol. 0215, 3-4, vol. 216, 181-2). There is no visible well at ground level now but there is local knowledge of continuing devotion at a nearby tree where there is water in a crook of a branch. Cures of warts are recorded and rags are added to the tree.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Amended: 6 December 2019
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Stone head (present location)under 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.