St Patrick's Well (Tubberpatrick), Portstewart
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St Patrick's Well (Tubberpatrick), Portstewart
Image: © Kenneth Allen Taken: 23 May 2008
It is located on the path leaving the road to Portstewart Strand, opposite the Golf Club. The sign reads, "St Patrick's Well, Strand Head, Portstewart. Tobber Patrick or St Patrick's well was probably a pagan sacred well before Christianity came to Ireland. Pilgrimages were made to the Well and in time those developed into an Annual Fair held on the last Monday of August with races, etc on the Strand. The well would have been the source of water for the prehistoric inhabitants of the nearby sand dunes."
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Image Location
Latitude
55.171674
Longitude
-6.726449