What is recorded here

Finlough Holy Well sits on low ground beside Fenloe Lake and just south of Tomfinlough church, built around a bullaun stone rather than fed by a natural spring. That detail makes it sound less like a gift from the earth and more like a place where people forced attention upon a stone until the stone became holy. Westropp wrote that rags and broken china lay near it in 1902, the usual small offerings of a well used for years. Perhaps visitors came with fever, fear or gratitude, touched the stone, and left behind whatever they could not carry home.

On lowlying ground at the N end of Fenloe Lake and c. 40m S of Tomfinlough church (CL042-083001-) and graveyard (CL042-083002-). This holy well is built up around a bullaun stone (CL042-083004-) and there is no natural spring. According to Westropp (1902, 190) the usual small offerings of rags, broken china, etc. are found near the well. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 13 October 2015

The Finlough Holy Well is associated with Saint Finbarr, a 7th-century Irish saint known for his ascetic practices and healing miracles. Traditionally, the well was visited for its supposed curative properties, particularly for eye ailments, and the surrounding bullaun stone may have been used for ritual purification or as a site for leaving offerings.

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