Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballintober, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberbreedia
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar Brighde (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.35733, -8.40992
- SMR number
- LI057-001----
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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
Ó Danachair (1955, 207) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Toberbreedia on 1841 map. A small spring in an open field, with some old whitethorn trees. The rounds path is marked by five stones. Rounds are still made, but not often. Formerly much visited, especially on 1st February. Widely known as the "Chincough Well" and said to cure whooping cough in children. The alternative cures were: water was taken from the well to the patient; moss from the well was boiled in milk and the milk drunk; the patient was brought to the well and drank the water there. Legends: A fowler washed his dog in the well and it moved. A treasure buried at the well is guarded by a phantom bull'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 03 July 2019
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.