What is recorded here

Toberpatrick is Patrick's well in Deerpark, County Cavan, but the name has moved a hundred metres south-east to another spring, leaving the original shallow hollow without its signpost. It is no larger than one and a half metres across and barely forty centimetres deep, enclosed by an incomplete stone wall whose gap drains toward a nearby stream. The well appeared on maps from 1835 and 1913, and local tradition holds that people gathered there each seventeenth of March until the custom faded before 1987, when a flat slab was laid across it.

Marked on all OS eds. Small circular well (int. diam. 0.9m) on the N shore of Lakefield Lough. Used as a place of pilgrimage up until the 1890s (local information). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Linked to Saint Patrick, the well is traditionally associated with healing and pilgrimage, with local reports indicating its use as a site of devotion up until the 1890s. The circular structure and its location by Lakefield Lough suggest a long-standing spiritual significance in the area.

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