Toberfoolagh, holy well in County Westmeath

What is recorded here

Possible holy well depicted as 'Toberfoolagh' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch and on the 1910 revised OS 6-inch map as 'Toberfoolagh (Site of)' suggesting that the well was levelled or filled in between these dates. The site of the well was described in 1985 as a 'low grassy knoll with a hollow in the centre' (Bradley et. al. 1985, 94).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM004-035013

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What survives: Recorded monument

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Olliebailie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
JohnArmagh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Illustrator not named; The Dublin Penny Journal (1835), public scan from Internet Archive and JSTOR, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Marathon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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