Tober Bride holy well at Cloghoge Upper, Sligo

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In wet marshy pasture, at the base of the ENE-facing slope of a ridge and to the rear of a disused creamery at Castlebaldwin. The most northerly of three adjacent holy wells, with Tober Murry (SL034-186002-) c. 12m to SE and Tober Patrick (SL034-186003-) c. 15m to SE. A moss-covered stone retaining wall is built into the slope with a lintelled ope (H 0.2m; Wth 0.5m) at its base through which water flows out toward Tobar Murry. It was mentioned in 1836 as 'Tobar Bhríghde...over which three trees grow' (OSL, 157). Also in 1836 there was a local memory of 'stations' at the well (OSNB vol. 1, 351). Prof. R. A. S. Macalister (d. 1950), in an undated report, recorded the story that when a great ash tree which grew at the wells was blown down it was said that the sign of the cross was found 'rudely branded in the fractured section of the wood' (SMR (1989) file).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL034-186001

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