Dublin Core
Title
Tobarneedowney
Description of Well Item Type Metadata
1 Name of well and saint
Tobareendowney, King of Sunday
2 Townland, County, GPS
Rathwilladoon, Galway
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
Right off the road, you must climb over a few cattle fences to find this walled compound containing 2 wells and an altar.
4 Cure
There is a small house/altar for "sick persons."
5 Pattern day
Garland Sunday at the end of July is the feast day
7 Prayer rounds and stations
The penitent descends stone steps performing their stations in other parts of the well, and they are supposed to do it barefooted.
8 Stories
There are smooth stones resembling eggs that go back to an ancient fertility cult. The reason people go barefoot is because of an old story where a woman stole another woman's shoes, but was unable to get away with it by divine intervention.
9 Publications
"The Parish of Kilkeedy: a local history compiled by Frank Brew" 1998, Published by Frank Brew, Castlequarter, Tubber, County Clare, ISBN 0 9534788 0 7
10 More
One well flows into another, but it usually goes dry in the summer.