Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Glenmore Upper, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenmore Upper
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberoran
- Coordinates
- 52.79964, -8.02561
- SMR number
- TN028-031----
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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 marshy hollow in an upland area with a nearby church (TN028-025) to the NW. A circular well (diam. 2.3m E-W; D 0.75m) enclosed by a drystone wall surviving three courses high with a small stream flowing out from the N face of the well (FitzPatrick 1985b, 134-43). Dedicated to St Odhran with a pilgrimage to the well on August 15th. The OS Letters describe the well as possessing curative properties for sore eyes and headaches. Cures were obtained by placing a stone on top of your head. Stations at the well were performed on the 27th of October (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 192).
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.