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Toberusta

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On the N bank of a stream in pastureland. Named ‘Toberusta’ on the 1838 edition and 1947-8 revision of the OS 6-inch map. This flooded well (D 0.6 to 0.8m on the day of visit) is delimited along the N side by a semi-circular drystone wall (Wth 0.6m; H 0.8m). On inspection the wall was in poor condition, with dense overgrowth to the E and W. While it has been regarded locally as a holy well, it has not been used as such for many years.
On the N bank of a stream in pastureland. Named ‘Toberusta’ on the 1838 edition and 1947-8 revision of the OS 6-inch map. This flooded well (D 0.6 to 0.8m on the day of visit) is delimited along the N side by a semi-circular drystone wall (Wth 0.6m; H 0.8m). On inspection the wall was in poor condition, with dense overgrowth to the E and W. While it has been regarded locally as a holy well, it has not been used…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA126-012

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Jason Keane, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; P L Chadwick, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Brian Nevin, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; dougf, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Rasbak at Dutch Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; No machine-readable author provided. Bogman assumed (based on copyright claims)., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5; C O'Flanagan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Alan Murray-Rust, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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