Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilfree, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfree
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernaneagh
- Coordinates
- 53.97923, -8.54073
- SMR number
- SL044-047001-
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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, at the base of a N-facing slope. The well utilised a natural spring emerging at the base of the slope. It has been converted into a county council reservoir and is enclosed by a rectangular concrete shed (11m E-W; 8.5m N-S). No structural remains of the holy well survive. In 1836 it was recorded that the well was known as 'Tobar na Naomh' with a traditional Patron Day on 15th August (OSL, 229). A holy well (SL044-081----) named 'Tober-na-neeve or the Well of the Saints' is recorded in Carrowntemple, c. 2.5km to SW, and had its patron day on 15th August. A penitential cairn (SL044-047002-) and a cross-slab (SL044-047003-) lie c. 9m to ESE and there is a burnt spread (SL044-047006-) at the NW corner of the shed. A cashel (SL044-048001-) is located at the top of the slope to S.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.