Tobergowna, holy well in County Longford

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What is recorded here

In pasture. This spring well is within a relatively modern stone setting. In 1837 O’Donovan recorded that this well retained ‘a name of the most remote antiquity, namely Tober Gamhna, or the Well of the Calf. It was said to be the source of Lough Gowna. According to a local man, Farrell Linchy who was almost 100 years old, it was ‘a well of great sanctity’ in the old days but it was ‘stopped up some years ago by the hand of cultivation (OSL, 4-5). No longer in use.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF010-115

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