Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kildanoge, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildanoge
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernacally
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernacally
- Coordinates
- 52.27656, -7.88362
- SMR number
- TS088-037----
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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 hollow (0.94m below the field) in flat pasture. Spring well consisting of a natural pool (diam. 10m x 6m) with a steep-sided stream running off it. Power (1908, 17) translated 'Tobernacally' as 'The Hag's (or Nun's) Well' and 'according to local belief a cross is sometimes seen to shine in the water'. According to local tradition St. Patrick's cross is supposed to be buried here and the well water is a cure for horse's cough, horses having to be brought to the well before sun rise. There is no evidence of any man-made structures at this location. The water in the well was 0.1m deep at time of visit. There are a lot of small stones on the floor of the pool.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 04 December 2013
References
Power, P. 1908 Placenames of the Decies. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society 11, 1-34, 45-78, 135-43 and 179-210.
Nearby in the register
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.