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Toberara

Holy well

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In level pasture, adjacent to a stream/drain. There is a farmstead to S and W. This holy well is named ‘Toberara’ on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps, and is recorded in the OS Letters (1838, 196 (102)) as ‘Tober a Righ’. The well, now dried up, is enclosed by a concrete wall. According to local information, three large stones once formed one side of the well.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA015-009

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