What is recorded here

Toberkeagh is a holy well in County Clare where a small drystone chamber holds a natural spring inside a low, wet hollow. The wall is narrow enough to touch on both sides, but briar and thorn have taken much of it back. A concrete trough now blocks the eastern opening, turning a place for prayer into a place for drinking animals. Nearby, a fulacht fiadh waits on slightly higher ground, as if people once cooked, washed or marked time beside the water before forgetting the well’s name.

In a low, wet hollow from where ground rises gently on all sides. Indicated and named ‘Toberkeagh’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A natural spring well enclosed by a small D-shaped enclosure (2.1m E–W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 1m; internal H 1.3m). It would have been open to E, but a concrete watering trough has now been inserted. The enclosing wall is largely overgrown with briar and thorn and the wet surrounding ground is poached. A fulacht fiadh (CL007-005003-) lies on slightly higher ground c. 16m to the WSW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 30 September 2021

Toberkeagh is associated with Saint Keagh, a lesser-known early Irish saint, and was traditionally visited for its supposed healing properties, particularly for skin ailments and eye complaints. The well's D-shaped enclosure suggests a long history of Christian worship, though specific folklore or detailed historical accounts of the site are scarce.

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