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Located towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. The well is depicted on the 1835 and 1945 editions of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘Tober Ronan’. It was known as Tober Ronan, and it had a cure for warts (IFC, Schools Collections vol. 0215, 3-4, vol. 216, 181-2). There is no visible well at ground level now but there is local knowledge of continuing devotion at a nearby tree where there is water in a crook of a branch. Cures of warts are recorded and rags are added to the tree. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).
Located towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. The well is depicted on the 1835 and 1945 editions of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘Tober Ronan’. It was known as Tober Ronan, and it had a cure for warts (IFC, Schools Collections vol. 0215, 3-4, vol. 216, 181-2). There is no visible well at ground level now but there is local knowledge of continuing devotion at a nearby tree where…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE032-066
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