Toberchocha, holy well in County Kildare

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What is recorded here

Now a fenced off oval pond (diams. 4m N-S; 2m E-W; D 0.8m) in a roadside garden, with some stone lining visible at the S-end. Shares the townland's name, and, according to Fitzgerald, (1919, 258), ‘Though not now resorted to for cures, this is a Blessed Well … .’, while Jackson (1979-80, 159) records that the well was resorted to for a cure for mental illness, and a patron was held there on March 8th.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD022-015

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