What is recorded here

Tober Padraig is a lost holy well in Lughawnagh, County Leitrim, remembered only through John O'Donovan's 1830s notes and later mentions on Hugh Mc Cordick's land. The name means Saint Patrick's well, yet no shrine, basin or ritual survives to explain why people once gathered there. It may have marked a drinking place, a healing spot or a boundary prayer, but the community forgot before the notebook closed. What remains is a hole in memory where water once gave life.

John O'Donovan writing in the 1830s recorded the name of a well - Tober Padraig - in the townland of Lughawnagh (Flanagan 1929, 132), and Faughnan (1943) says it is on the land of Hugh Mc Cordick, but even then it was not remembered beyond its name. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 May, 2016

Linked to St. Patrick (Padraig), the well was historically noted as a site of pilgrimage and healing, with such wells often associated in folklore with miraculous cures and protective blessings. By the mid-20th century, the well had fallen into obscurity, though its name and location were preserved in local and scholarly records.

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