What is recorded here

Toberpatrick in County Clare is a holy well whose interior north face carries nineteenth-century carvings, inscriptions and later graffiti. One stone shows a human figure with a moon-like face, echoing the nearby Comyn family memorial. The marks turn a ordinary water basin into a crowded chamber where memory, devotion and playful defiance still compete for space on ancient rock.

On the interior N face of the structure surrounding Toberpatrick (CL003-021001-). Several of the structural stones of the holy well bear carvings, inscriptions and graffiti, mostly 19th century. One bears a carved human figure with a moon-like face similar to that on the leacht cuimhne or memorial to the Comyn family (CL003-021004-) c. 30 to the NNW. According to Coffey (1995, 16-17) the rock scribing at the well was originally part of the leacht. The following image has been uploaded: CL003-021007-_01.jpg Carved human face amidst later graffiti within holy well. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 31 July 2019

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