What is recorded here
Thubberakilleen is a holy well hidden somewhere in Kyle East or Kyle West, marked only by memory and a vanished church. It belonged to the original parish of Cooliagh, whose stones were uprooted and ploughed into ordinary farm land. The well may have remained when the building disappeared, keeping the sacred water flowing while human hands forgot where to look.
According to Carrigan (1905, 335) the original parish church of Cooliagh (KK026-036----) was situated in the townland of ‘Kyle’, together with its graveyard (KK026-036001-), in the ‘churchyard field’, but had been uprooted and ‘subject to the plough’. In the corner of the churchyard field was a well called ‘Thubberakilleen’. The precise location of the holy well within the townlands of Kyle East and Kyle West is unknown.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 18 June 2013
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
European ashEuropean ash · 529 yd
CastleCastle, tower house · 1059 yd
Coolaghflags Catholic Chapelchurch/chapel · 1063 yd
HawthornHawthorn · 1148 yd
Fairy fort / ringfort in CoolaghflagsFairy fort / ringfort · 1.2 mi
Mill IslandIslet · 2.0 mi
Bawn in GarryrickinBawn · 2.2 mi
Green StreetVisitor information · 2.2 mi