What is recorded here

Tobernatasha is a dry rectangular well beside Kilnamona church where families laid ailing children in the 19th century. Its western edge holds a broken cross-slab, marking the small pit as a place of desperate hope rather than ordinary water. The valley has kept that gesture intact: a narrow stone tray, a ringed cross, and the memory of children carried there to be made whole.

On the floor of an E-W valley, c. 150m S of Kilnamona church (CL033-006001-). A rectangular stone-lined depression (dims. 0.85m E-W; 0.2m N-S; D 0.3m) which is now dry, but where ailing children were laid in the 19th century (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 65). The W edge of the well consists of a fragment of a cross-slab (CL033-007002-) (dims. 0.48m x 0.46m; T 0.13m) which has a ringed cross incised with double lines. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 May 2016

Tobernatasha is associated with the tradition of healing the sick, particularly ailing children, who were laid at the site in the 19th century. The well's name may derive from an early Christian saint, though the specific saint or religious figure linked to it is not clearly recorded.

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