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Title
A name given to the resource
Kerry
Subject
The topic of the resource
County
Description of Well
This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc
1 Name of well and saint
Well of the Blessed Tree, Tobar an Bhile, St Crohane’s Well, or Tobervilla
2 Townland, County, GPS
Behaghane, County Kerry, Grid ref: V 57871 60854
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
On the way to the well, there are ruins from two abandoned Churches, a graveyard and a red gate. Around the well there are two small rocks with crosses on them, a massive rock with the inscription of a cross and a bush with colorful rags. There is also a round enclosure with the stations of the cross carved into the stones, ash trees and a statue of the Virgin Mary. Locals believe that this enclosure is located on the site where the holy tree associated with this well used to stand. The well itself is surrounded by a stone structure with flower beds and the name of the well on it. The clear water rises from the ground and follows the rock path down the hill.
4 Cure
This well has an eye cure.
5 Pattern day
The pattern day at this site is actually three consecutive days starting on July 29th at St. Crohane’s Well. The pattern was performed as a pilgrimage and included two other wells: Tober na Bearnan (a holy well on Eagles Hill) and Tobercrohane well. Visitors conducted rounds throughout the pilgrimage. Unfortunately, the attendance at this pattern day began to decline in the 1940s and now very few people attend it. (Clarke 2019).
6 Offerings
Photos from when there was still a blessed tree show coins embedded within it. It is believed that these were an offering (Clarke 2019).
9 Publications
https://roaringwaterjournal.com/2019/02/03/introducing-the-holy-wells-of-kerry/
https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/2019/04/20/tobar-an-bhile-a-lot-of-serendipity/
10 More
There used to be a blessed tree called “old tree” in the area surrounding this site. It was an ash tree and locals believe that it was located where the Shrine to the Virgin Mary currently resides. They also believe that this tree marked the site of St Crohane’s final resting place and that it also possessed abnormal properties (Clarke 2019).
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Title
A name given to the resource
Tobervilla (Tobar na Bile) Well of the Sacred Tree
29 July
eye
St. Crohane
tree
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Title
A name given to the resource
Waterford
Subject
The topic of the resource
County
Description of Well
This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc
1 Name of well and saint
Tobar Mhuire (also known as Lady Well) is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
2 Townland, County, GPS
The well is located in Modeligo, County Waterford
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
This well consists of a hollowed out rock outcrop that collects rainwater. It is believed that the hollow is due to the natural erosion caused by rainwater. There is not a spring source that feeds into the well. A small border of concrete surrounds the site, and several patches of trees grow in the field adjacent to the well.
4 Cure
This well is said to cure ailments of the eye, and is said that this is due to the cross carved into the base of the well.
5 Pattern day
The pattern day is celebrated on August 15th by pilgrims in order to say the rosary.
6 Offerings
Rags and rosary beads were once hung on an old white thorn bush that grows by the well, but the practice has been discontinued after the 1960's.
7 Prayer rounds and stations
In old times, the water would be removed from the well and would be replaced the day before the pattern day in order to keep the waters pure. Pilgrims would pour water on their hands and rub it on their bodies, while others would drink it from the palms of their hands. Prayer rounds would end at a flowing spring well around 60 meters away near the Finish River. This location was dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and pilgrims would end their rounds by drinking 3 times from the river in honor of the Blessed Trinity. In present times, the well is still cleaned before every pattern day by a member of the McCarthy family to remove algae. However, most pilgrims finish their rounds and prayers at the well rather than the Tobar Mhuire well rather than the Trinity Well (which is no longer revered as a holy site).
8 Stories
There is a local legend that a blind man and his seeing son travelled 20 miles to visit the well. On their second round around the well, the old man said that he could see a fish, and his sight was restored from that moment on. Another legend states that the well had previously been located in another spot but was moved due to an act of disrespect. According to the story, the man who disrespected the well became blind and nothing grew in the original field once the well was moved. A final legend tells the story of a Cromwellian soldier who was in possession of a blind horse. The man offered his servant 10 pounds to take the horse to drink from the well, but the servant refused to disrespect the site. The soldier took the horse himself to drink from the well, and while the horse regained his sight, the soldier became blind.
9 Publications
Eugene Broderick (2016) Broderick, Eugene. 2016. Patterns and Patrons: The Holy Wells of Waterford. (p.42-45)
https://pilgrimagemedievalireland.com/2012/09/15/lady-well-or-tobar-mhuire-in-modeligo-co-waterford/
10 More
Local people believe that the rainwater that fills the well becomes blessed the moment it falls into the well.
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Title
A name given to the resource
Lady Well St. Mary
15 August
blindness
eye
St. Mary
Waterford
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Title
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Kerry
Subject
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County
Description of Well
This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc
1 Name of well and saint
St. Batt's Well, St Bartholomew
2 Townland, County, GPS
This well resides in Knockenagh South, County Kerry.
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
Saint Batt’s Well is a below ground well with a stone enclosure and steps, along with a large metal slab above it and a metal door blocking the entrance. When the door is opened, there are a few more steps that lead down to a circular pool of water.
4 Cure
This well serves as a cure for eye, throat, and back aches, along with rheumatism. To obtain the cure one is instructed to either drink the water or take some moss from the surrounding area, mix it with the well water, and apply to the affected areas.
5 Pattern day
The pattern day for Saint Bartholomew is August 24 but the well is visited often. According to one student from the folklore collection, "It is visited on the last Saturday in April, the Saturday before the twenty-fourth of June and the Saturday before the twenty-ninth of September." (SFC: 0406:086).
6 Offerings
Offerings range from holy figurines of saints and rosaries to money and ribbons. These offerings are left tied to surrounding trees or on top of the slab covering the well.
7 Prayer rounds and stations
In order "to pay rounds...[people] go around the well nine times and they say three rosaries..."(SFC: 0401:314).
8 Stories
On its healing properties: "Many people have been cured at this well. A woman had a very bad pain in her back. She went to the well in Coolard and did one round. When she reached home the pain went away." (SFC: 0406:087)
There is also said to be a trout that possesses some sort of magically quality who lives in the well. "...one day a woman took a gallon of water out the well to make tea. She took out the fish in the gallon and put the fish into the kettle with the water unknown to herself. She put it over a big fire to boil it and it was over the fire for hours and it did not boil. At last she looked into the kettle and she saw the fish. She took out the fish and took him to the well again and put him into it and so the kettle boiled."(SFC: 0407:084).
9 Publications
https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/2019/10/28/st-batts-well-an-abundance-of-cattle/
https://frpatmooredotcom.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/st-batts-well/
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4666571/4662916/4667202?ChapterID=4666571
10 More
As mentioned in the provided local stories, the well is noted as being in Coolard. The well was moved after a woman washed clothing in the water to where it is today. The picture provided is from Clarke at holywellscorkandkerry.com
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Title
A name given to the resource
St. Bartholomew's Well
back
Bartholomew
eye
Kerry
rheumatism
throat
trout
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Title
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Waterford
Subject
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County
Description of Well
This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc
1 Name of well and saint
Well of Saint Mochua
2 Townland, County, GPS
Clashmore townland, Co. Waterford
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
The well is at the end of Raheen Quay walk, where there is a sign posted leading to the well. It is situated at the top of a hill.
4 Cure
It is said to cure pains, and many visitors bring the well water home. There are also reports of it being an eye well, where visitors would sprinkle the water onto their eyes.
5 Pattern day
February 10
6 Offerings
No reports of offerings are noted at this time.
7 Prayer rounds and stations
Many believers go around the well three times and pray the rosary. It is a custom to do this especially on the pattern day, and to take the well water home.
8 Stories
It is said that two eels are in the well, and they are the genii loci of Saint Mochua and someone else.
According to the Schools Folklore Collection entry on the well, “Long ago it is said that this well was situated at the top of the village and that one morning a woman came out and washed some clothes in it. On the following morning she came again to do the same work, but there was no sign of the well. The people say that it was not right to wash clothes in the well as it was blessed. The well started to rise again about three fields away from its former place” (SFC 0640:43).
Apparently a local man Tom Lockamore came to the well to make rounds to cure his eye. He saw a trout in the well, and the trout splashed his eye. The eye was healed the next day (Broderick, 2016: 46).
9 Publications
Broderick, Eugene. 2016. Patterns and Patrons: The Holy Wells of Waterford. 46.
Schools Folklore Collection. 0640:43.
http://www.discoverclashmore.com/history.html
10 More
According to the Schools Folklore Collection, this is the only well in the parish.
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Title
A name given to the resource
St. Mochua's Well
eye
February 10
Mochua
pain
Weaterfor
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Title
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Donegal
Subject
The topic of the resource
County
Description of Well
This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc
1 Name of well and saint
Eskaheen/Iskaheen and Saint Patrick
2 Townland, County, GPS
Eskaheen, Muff, Donegal (Cronin, et al. 2012)
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
The eye well is located in a natural well besides a stream of which the well feeds. It is located is good pastureland to the west of the Eskaheen Chapel and directly north of the village Muff. The well consists of a small natural spring with drystone surrounds to the south and southwest. The well aperture is sub-square in shape and measures approximately 0.4m in length and width. The water of the spring runs south-westward to a larger spring. (Cronin, et al. 2012)
4 Cure
Known as the "Eye Well" (the school collection). The well is said to have a cure for eye diseases and is frequently visited to this day. (Cronin, et al. 2012)
6 Offerings
Among the votive offerings are pieces of rags, children's clothes, medals, coins, statues, cups, rosary beads, ribbons, children's toys, keys rings and a few eyeglasses. (Cronin, et al. 2012)
8 Stories
Supposedly blessed by Saint Patrick who also founded the nearby St. Patricks Chapel. (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 203). St. Patrick’s in Iskaheen (1782) is one of the oldest churches in the Derry diocese still in use. (Iskaheen Parish, 2017: https://www.iskaheenparish.com/history/)
9 Publications
Donegal Holy Wells 2002 Survey. The School's Collection.
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Title
A name given to the resource
St. Patrick/ Iskaheen/Eskaheen Well
Donegal
eye
Patrick
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Title
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Cork
Subject
The topic of the resource
County
Description of Well
This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc
1 Name of well and saint
Tobernasool
2 Townland, County, GPS
Abbeystrowry, Cork
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
This well is “adjacent to Skibbereen-Ballydehob road…[the] Abbeystrowry graveyard lies a short distance to W” (Power, 1993: 281). Power also notes that the site contains “no visible surface trace” (Power 281) of the well.
9 Publications
Power, Denis, et al. 1993. “Archaeological Inventory of County Cork.” Volume 1: West Cork. Stationary Office, Dublin.
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Title
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Tobernasool
Cork
eye