St. Patrick's Well

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Title

St. Patrick's Well

Description of Well Item Type Metadata

1 Name of well and saint

St Patrick's Well

2 Townland, County, GPS

Carrigatogher, Tipperary

3 Physical description of well and its surroundings

Situated on flat pasture in an upland area. A natural spring well of rectangular plan (0.75m x 0.65m x 0.9m H) enclosed by a stone canopy set into the S face of a low rise of ground with a stream running out from the S face of the well. (Farrelly and O'Brien)

5 Pattern day

The well was visited on St Patrick's Day and every Saturday for its curative powers (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 115).

9 Publications

The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary'
O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 115

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