Christian Sites

On E bank of stream. Flooded; inaccessible. No longer in holy use. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork’ (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the e Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

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The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for resear Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope, and marked similarly as Tobershonack on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is known locally as St. Ita’s well (Decie, 1983, 49), but is now replaced by a pump-house. Decie (1983) Old Waterford Society survey. Dec Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

John O’Donovan identified St. Lawrence’s well in the NE area of Faithlegg townland c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1929, 3-4), and the name was known to Power (1906a, 29), but the well cannot be located now. O’Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing infor Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

St. Naul’s Well, a modernised ‘holy well’. It is located on fairly good land on a SSE slope above the sea. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as ‘A Holy Well on the steep sloping seaside at Fanaghan has been traditionally associated with this miracle [t Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Situated on the S-facing slope of a W-E valley, just E of the NW-SE Farrane stream at the point where it turns E. According to Power (1897b, 78) there was a holy well associated with church (WA022-014001-) but a change in the course of the stream obliter Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

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Located beside Burren Bridge, covered by stone-built structure with lintelled roof. No indication that well still in holy use. On OS 6-inch map (1842), well of same name (CO123-057—) shown 180m to E.The above description is derived from the published ‘ Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Enclosed by stone-built clochan with internal diameter of 1.7m. Well in good condition and possibly still venerated.The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork’ (Dublin: Stationery Off Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for resear Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer