What is recorded here

Toberallaghtan is a vanished holy well in Killallaghtan, County Galway, where a marshy depression and two dressed stones are all that remain of a place once central to local devotion. O’Flanagan documented it in 1927, but even then it had mostly disappeared beneath the land. The well may have given water, healing or prayer to people long gone, while the marsh took back its shape. What is left is not a monument but a suggestion: a hole in the field where the ordinary world thinned, and the community looked upward.

In a large marshy depression adjacent to a field boundary, 235m NE of a church (GA099-114001-). Apart from one or two dressed stones projecting from the field boundary, no visible surface trace survives. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 646) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Toberallaghtan is associated with Saint Killallaghtan, a lesser-known early Irish saint, and was traditionally visited for its supposed healing properties, particularly for skin ailments. The site's name, derived from "Tobar" (well) and a personal name, reflects a common pattern in Irish holy wells linked to local saints and folk traditions of water-based cures.

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