
What is recorded here
Holy well in Carrownamaddoo (tireragh By.) is a holy well in Carrownamaddoo (tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland. A natural spring gathers water in a shallow pool before flowing north and northeast through marshy ground. A low circular rise, six metres across and forty centimetres high, sits northeast of the spring. Ordnance Survey Name Books recorded the site as Tobar Luarain, or St. Loran's Well, and as a former station well.
Marked on both editions of the OS 6-inch map. Situated within a slight depression at the junction of two field walls. Naturally-occurring spring. The water gathers in a small, shallow pool and then flows N and NE through an area of wet, marshy ground. Adjacent to the NE of the spring is a low, circular rise (diam. c.6m; H 0.4m). The Ordnance Survey Name Books (1836, 315 (130) recorded that this was known as 'Tobar Luarain or St. Loran's Well and that it was formerly a 'station well'.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
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- What survives
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