Toberpatrick in Kiltormer East, holy well in County Galway

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What is recorded here

In flat low-lying grassland. This natural spring well (D 0.65m) is dedicated to St Patrick. It is enclosed by a low rectangular drystone wall (1.95m E-W; 1.3m N-S; H 0.6m). On inspection it was overgrown by grass and there was no indication that it was still in use as a holy well. The OS Letters state that a pattern was held here on the first Sunday in August, Garland Sunday (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 113). However, details from The Schools’ Collection (https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4583336/4580677/4587536 last accessed 29 March 2023) indicate that the pattern was held on the last Sunday of August, with stations taking place three Fridays before it.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA099-123

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