What is recorded here

Toberstarley is a holy well in Cams, County Sligo, Ireland. A low semicircular earth and stone bank, 1.6m wide and 0.5m high, encloses a shallow pool 2m across and 0.3m deep in rough marshy pasture. Wood-Martin recorded that the well was formerly held in estimation as holy, while a court tomb lies about 50m north and another holy well about 100m south.

In rough marshy pasture. A low semicircular earth and stone bank (Wth 1.6m; H 0.5m) encloses a shallow pool of water (diam. 2m; D 0.3m). A concrete pump-house is immediately adjacent. Named 'Toberstarling' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. A court tomb (SL034-099----) lies c. 50m to N and 'Tobernagalliagh' (SL034-100002-) c. 100m to S. According to Wood-Martin (1892, 355-6, n. 1), this well was 'formerly held in estimation as "holy"'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Toberstarley (also recorded as Toberstarling) is traditionally associated with Saint Starle or Starley, a lesser-known early Irish saint. The site may have been a place of pilgrimage or healing, though specific cures or rituals linked to the well are not well documented.

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