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In rough gorse and heather-covered grazing land, on a SW-facing slope overlooking a beach known locally as 'Trá Bhán', on the S side of Hare Island. A spring well called 'Tobar a' Luibín' emerges from the base of a SW-facing field boundary and flows into a naturally occurring hollow (0.6m NE-SW; 0.5m NW-SE; D 0.4m) from which it flows in a SW direction towards the seashore. In the 1930s it was recorded that people with sore eyes used to visit the well, say prayers there and bathe their eyes in the well water (Daly 2000, 45). People suffering from pains and other illnesses also used to visit the well (ibid.)
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
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