Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Rathbrackan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathbrackan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobergowna
- Coordinates
- 53.78840, -7.53776
- SMR number
- LF010-115----
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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 pasture. This spring well is within a relatively modern stone setting. In 1837 O’Donovan recorded that this well retained ‘a name of the most remote antiquity, namely Tober Gamhna, or the Well of the Calf. It was said to be the source of Lough Gowna. According to a local man, Farrell Linchy who was almost 100 years old, it was ‘a well of great sanctity’ in the old days but it was ‘stopped up some years ago by the hand of cultivation (OSL, 4-5). No longer in use.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.