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===Holy well===
[[File:St catherine's Well site.png|thumb|Site of St. Catherine's Well]]
'''Saint Catherine's Well''', or ''Tubber Naev Kathaleen'',<ref name="Carrigan II">{{cite book |last1=Carrigan |first1=William |title=The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, vol. II |date=1905 |page=325 |url = https://archive.org/details/historyandantiq03carrgoog/page/n344/mode/2up }}</ref> was a [[holy well]] in the [[townland]] of [[Rathbeagh]]. The site is recorded in the [[Record of Monuments and Places]] under record number "KK009-049----".<ref name="NMS">{{cite web |url=https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK009-049---- |title=KK009-049---- : Ritual site - holy well : RATHBEAGH |website=Historic Environment Viewer |publisher=National Monuments Service |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> St. Catherine's Graveyard and the ruin of St. Catherine's church are nearby.<ref name="NMS"/>
The well was already disused, and possibly even destroyed, by the time [[Eugene O'Curry]] wrote in 1839:
"There was a well between the church and the [[River Nore|Nore]], called St. Catherine's Well, at which a [[Patronal festival|patron]] was held till within the last 10 years, on the 24th day of June [ [[Midsummer|Midsummer Day]] ]; and the 6th of December [ [[Saint Nicholas Day]] ] was kept a holy day in the parish in honour of St. Catherine".<ref name="Carrigan II" />
As of the 21st century, no trace of the holy well remains<ref name="Dalaigh">{{cite book |last1=Ó Dálaigh |first1=Pádraig |title=The holy wells of County Kilkenny in terms of documentary coverage, location, ritual practice and onomastic concept, vol. II |location=Limerick |page=541 |url=https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/bitstream/handle/10395/2584/O%20Dalaigh%2c%20P.%20%282018%29%20The%20holy%20wells%20of%20County%20Kilkenny.%20Vol.%201%20%26%202.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y | quote = James Walsh (aged 80-85) of Rathbeagh relates that the well was apparently situated on the land of his brother [..] but neither actually ever saw it nor did they hear of St. Catherine's Well}}</ref>, but it is somewhere a short distance south of ''Poll Leabhair''. Local folklore suggests that the well's water was previously used as a cure for eye disease.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ó Dálaigh |first1=Pádraigh |date=2018 |title=The holy wells of County Kilkenny in terms of documentary coverage, location, ritual practice and onomastic concept, vol. II |page=541 |quote="[James Walsh's father] told his sons that his father before him (who died aged 90) used to speak of people visiting the well during his youth in search of a cure for sore eyes, some people having travelled from as far away as Northern Ireland in the hope of securing a cure."}}</ref>
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