Killeany / Cill Éinne

Friar's Well, AKA Tobar na m-brather

The Franciscan Friars established a monastery at Killeany, Inishmore-Inish Mór around the end of the 15th century, nothing remains of the monastery today, near by are the remains of a round tower and high cross from an early settlement. The friary was demolished and the materials were used to build a Cromwellian fort on the site of an earlier fortification known as Arkin Castle in c.1650. The well of the friars-Tobar na mBráthar is situated on a boreen, lined with dry-stone walls, that leads to a ritual site known to locals as St Eany's Well-Tober Éinne. Friar's well is now dry and the stone walling surrounding the basin has partially collapsed. Three steps, also now collapsed, in the north east corner led to the basin. This abandoned well is not mapped correctly on the National Monuments website.