Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloghoge Upper, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghoge Upper
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Murry
- Coordinates
- 54.07720, -8.37364
- SMR number
- SL034-186002-
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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 wet marshy pasture, at the base of the ENE-facing slope of a ridge to the rear of the disused creamery at Castlebaldwin. This is the centremost of three adjacent holy wells with Tober Bride (SL034-186001-) c. 12m to NW and Tober Patrick (SL034-186003-) c. 2m to SE. A concrete tank over a modern pipe covers the well which is filled with water flowing from Tobar Bride. Prof. R. A. S. Macalister (d. 1950), in an undated report, recorded the story that when a great ash tree which grew at the wells was blown down it was said that the sign of the cross was found 'rudely branded in the fractured section of the wood' (SMR (1989) file). According to local information, stations were held here.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
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- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.