Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Carrigeensharragh, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeensharragh
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernagloghderg
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernagloghderg
- Coordinates
- 52.40818, -7.67655
- SMR number
- TS077-037----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a low-lying area at the base of a steep SW-facing slope with a lot of outcrop protruding from the side of the slope, in woodland with beech trees and rhodadendrons. The spring runs into a little stream to SW which runs SE to join the River Moyle. There is a concrete covering over the well into which a pump has been inserted, it is now disused. There are a number of old discarded items lying around but no evidence of any religious devotion. The landowner referred to the well as 'The Red Well'. On the OS 6-inch map, both 1st (1840) and 2nd (1906) eds, the well is called 'Tobernagloghderg' which translates as 'the well of the red stones'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.