What is recorded here

Toberintaggart is a vanished holy well in County Kerry, Ireland, remembered only as the priest's well on Ballintobeenig. Hickson wrote it down in the 1880s, but Ó Danachair found no living tradition left to confirm the claim. The water may have sustained devotion, healed fever or marked a boundary between households and the church, yet even that purpose has drained away. What remains is a name floating above ordinary ground, waiting for someone to dig beneath the grass and test whether memory or invention built the story.

No surface remains visible of the site Tobber na Saggart (the priest's well) was described by Hickson (1885-6, 499) as; 'a well called Tobber na Saggart (i.e. the priest's well), on a townland called Ballintobeenig'. Ó Danachair (1958, 163) was doubtful about this site and he recorded that; 'no tradition seems to have survived'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 April 2022

Toberintaggart, also known as Tobber na Saggart, is traditionally associated with a priestly figure, likely a local early Christian saint or cleric, as suggested by the name "the priest's well." Holy wells named after priests or saints were often sites of pilgrimage and healing rituals in Ireland, though specific cures or folklore linked to this well are not recorded.

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