Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Toberpatrick, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberpatrick
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.26703, -8.70024
- SMR number
- SL013-016----
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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
Marked on all editions of the OS 6-inch map. Traditionally said to have been created by St. Patrick on his journey through Tireragh. The well is now enclosed within a concrete well house. (OS Letters 1836, 315 (130)); ITA Survey 1942-4)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.