Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killanafinch (kilkeary Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killanafinch (kilkeary Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernakilla
- Coordinates
- 52.82494, -8.05497
- SMR number
- TN027-017----
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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
Situated in a low-lying marshy area with a stream flowing adjacent to the site in an E-W direction. This site has been flooded and there is no visible trace of it above ground. According to the OS Name Books it was 'formerly resorted to as a holy well the water of which together with prayers offered to the Saints healed and cured divers sores and diseases'.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.