Toberpatrick
Photo: A.-K. D. · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ritual site - holy well

Toberpatrick

Tobar Phádruig

Holy well in Tubbrid Upper, Co. Kilkenny.

  • AccessNot confirmed
  • National MonumentNot recorded
  • DateNot stated
  • FolkloreNone recorded
  • PhotoWikimedia Commons
Tubbrid Upper, Co. Kilkenny52.71305, -7.48093
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At a glance

  • TypeRitual site - holy well
  • Condition (as surveyed)Ruined

Picked out from the Archaeological Survey description below.

Can you visit?

  • No source says it is open to the public.Most monuments in Ireland stand on private farmland.
  • Ask the landowner before crossing fields, close gates, leave the stones as you find them.Visiting responsibly
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History and description

On S bank of a the Nuenna river which lies 15m to the NE, on the flat, very wet, valley floor. Tubbrid church (KK013-03201-) lies c. 160m to the E. According to the OS Letters (1839), 'There is a fine spring well a little to the south west of the ruin [church], which the people call Tubber Patrick or Patrick's Well, but hold it in no veneration for sanctitiy.

Full archaeological record 142 words

On S bank of a the Nuenna river which lies 15m to the NE, on the flat, very wet, valley floor. Tubbrid church (KK013-03201-) lies c. 160m to the E. According to the OS Letters (1839), 'There is a fine spring well a little to the south west of the ruin [church], which the people call Tubber Patrick or Patrick's Well, but hold it in no veneration for sanctitiy. This well was probably the Briotan's Well which gave name to the Parish, but that name, which is a very un-Irish one, in the lapse of ages is very like to have been forgotten and the well callled by its present more popular one' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 171 (56)). Three small spring appear to emerge at this point, though some perhaps resulting from drainage works. There is no evidence of veneration.

Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service (CC BY 4.0) · Compiled by Jean Farrelly · Updated 30 July 2019. It describes the site as it was when surveyed.

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