Tobercornan
Tobercornan (Irish: Tobar Chornáin or The Pinnacle Well ) is a sacred spring on the edge of the Cappanawalla mountains west of Ballyvaughan in the Burren in County Clare in Ireland . The well house, built around 1860, is listed in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage .
Naming
The spring was named after a person or after the Irish plant name Cornán ( umbilical herb ). "Tobar" stands for source in Irish Gaelic .
description
The Tobercornan is on the coast road (Gleninagh Lane), northwest of the village of Ballyvaughan. Around 1860 a well house in neo-Gothic style was built from gray natural stones , with diagonally placed buttresses, crowned with stump-like pinnacles .
The spring house hides the inlet of the water, which enters through two U-shaped channels in the limestone . Because the water supply for the village of Ballyvaughan was disrupted in dry seasons, the spring house may have been necessary for emergency supply, especially since it is a constant spring, the volume of which changes little with the seasons.
literature
- George Cunningham: Burren Journey West. Limerick 1980, p.
Web links
- Entry and brief description in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Site plan and pictures
- Description Engl.
Coordinates: 53 ° 7 '58.6 " N , 9 ° 11' 39.8" W.