Toberreendoney, holy well in County Longford

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on a SW-facing slope c. 15m to the NE of a stream. Described by O’Donovan in 1837 as an a 'well of great sanctity probably of Pagan origin' (OSL, 6). Farrell (1891, 266) recorded that this was 'the sacred well of Tober-reendonny’, or ‘the Well of the King of Sunday'. In 1944 it was noted that although it was 'still regarded as a holy well in the locality … it has few visitors nowadays' (ITA Survey). It has since been filled in.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF011-050

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