Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Tuogh (owneybeg By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tuogh (owneybeg By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberbreedia
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberbreedia
- Coordinates
- 52.59433, -8.34833
- SMR number
- LI015-029----
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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
Site of Tobar Bríde situated immediately W of a field boundary, in poorly drained, undulating pasture. The site is sheltered to N, E and S and has good views to W. Described by Ó Danachair (1955, 213) as 'a strong spring issuing from the rock…the water cures vomiting and sick stomach if taken fasting before daybreak'. Ó Danachair mentions a legend still told locally that the well moved to this spot from the location of the Bullaun (LI015-041----) in the same townland. The site is heavily obscured by dense vegetation but no longer seems to be in holy use.
See attached photo taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00281 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17025.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 3 October 2020
References
Ó Danachair, C. 1955 The Holy Wells of County Limerick Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 85, 193-217
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.