Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Tobernahulla, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tobernahulla
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernahulla Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar na hOla
- Coordinates
- 52.16377, -8.13808
- SMR number
- WA019-001----
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
Situated on a N-facing slope on the E bank of the N-S Glenfinish stream at a point where it turns W. It is known as 'St Michael's Well' and still venerated. A circular stone-lined well (dims. 0.85m x 0.75m; H 0.7m) is beneath a tree which has a cairn (diam. 3m; max. H 0.8m) around its base.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Burial ground1 mi
- Building1 mi
- Country house2 mi
- Dovecote2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.