Tobernabraher, holy well in County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Located in pasture towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. It is described as Tobar na mBráthar - the Brothers' Well - on the 1840 and 1926 eds of the OS 6-inch map. This is a small drystone well (diam. 1.8m), which was venerated (OS Name Books) but is now almost completely back-filled. Traces of a channel (L 2.2m) run W from the well.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA036-003

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