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Toberanearla (1924).

Holy well
Toberanearla (1924).
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What is recorded here

Toberanearla is a forgotten holy well hidden in a Limerick pasture, where loose stones still guard a muddy depression beneath dense vegetation. It vanished from local memory and even escaped the first official maps, suggesting the community stopped visiting before record-keepers arrived. The well may have waited patiently for people to remember that water and story belong together.
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Well located at SW end of natural ovoid depression (10m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE; D 0.85m) where loose setting of stones encloses muddy area (1.4m NE-SW; 1.2m NW-SE. Depression covered by dense vegetation. According to local information not venerated within living memory; not marked on 1840 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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