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Ritual site - holy well

Tobernamnarialta

Tobar na mBan Riaghalta

Holy well in Ballylane, County Waterford, Ireland.

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  • National MonumentNot recorded
  • DateNot stated
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Ballylane, Co. Waterford51.97245, -7.74463
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At a glance

  • TypeRitual site - holy well

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Picked out from the Archaeological Survey description below.

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  • No source says it is open to the public.Most monuments in Ireland stand on private farmland.
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History and description

Situated towards the head of a flat-bottomed N-S valley, with an E-W stream c. 40m to the S. This is a natural spring, now overgrown, where a pattern was formerly held on August 15th, according to J. O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1929, 79).

Full archaeological record 77 words

Situated towards the head of a flat-bottomed N-S valley, with an E-W stream c. 40m to the S. This is a natural spring, now overgrown, where a pattern was formerly held on August 15th, according to J. O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1929, 79). It is not frequented now.

O’Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray.

Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service (CC BY 4.0) · Compiled by Michael Moore · Updated 10th October, 2011 · Based on the Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford. It describes the site as it was when surveyed.

Folklore and traditions

Situated towards the head of a flat-bottomed N-S valley, with an E-W stream c. 40m to the S. This is a natural spring, now overgrown, where a pattern was formerly held on August 15th, according to J.
As recorded by the Archaeological Survey · a tradition, not a fact
Pattern days and rounds

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