placenamesToome Upper
Tuaim Uachtarach
Lewis recorded the visitors’ actions and the temporary booths that accompanied them.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tuaim Uachtarach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Toome Upper · English · main form
Place & story
A nineteenth-century devotional gathering
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Cranfield account describes large gatherings at the well beside the ruined church on 26, 27 and 28 June. Booths were erected for visitors. People went around the church ruins performing devotional stations and drank and washed in the well’s water, which they believed had healing properties. This is a dated account of local practice and belief, without establishing the water’s medical effects or the continuation of those gatherings today. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Toome Upper. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cranfield, Antrim: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.