Christian Sites

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On roadside at S end of Gortaghokera house cluster. This well, correctly Tobar Mac Duach, consists of a deep natural spring delimited by drystone walling and accessible via 24 steps, which is contained within a small triangular-shaped enclosure (1.5m by 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

According to the Ikerrin Survey the well is located in ‘marshy, low-lying terrain’ and ‘consists of a grassed-over cluster of stones at the source of a stream’ (Stout 1984, 90). ‘According to tradition the water from this well cured warts, providing a pe Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On the valley floor, at the heal of a stream. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 234) refers to this well as ‘Tiobar na suil, Well of the Eyes’ but appears to be confusing it with another holy well (KK008-132—-) c. 150m to the NW in Rathlogan townland. The well i Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Stream flowing into natural rock pool. 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 entries Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘St Patrick’s Well’, and situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. There is no visible evidence of a well, but a grass and moss-covered penitential cairn (RO029-044 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

On top of a gently sloping hillock, in the SW quadrant of a ringfort (TS058-033—-), in gently undulating pasture. According to local tradition, this was the location of a mass-rock. The mass-rock consists of a natural flat-topped outcrop (dims. 3.8m NW-SE; 1.8m NE-SW; H 0.8m) that appears to be of heavily eroded limestone. The surface […]

One of two holy wells (14029) situated within early ecclesiastical enclosure (13892); in NW quadrant, on S bank of stream; St Bericheart’s House (13933) lies immediately to S. Circular stone-lined well covered by gabled structure with opening to E. Stand Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

According to Ó Danachair (1955, 215) in this townland was a well named ‘Tobar Mhichíl … now used to supply water to Athea … an old man, born in 1816, stated that his grandfather used to make rounds at this well’ (ibid.). There is no well marked on Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

In the 1930s Capt. D. B. O’Connell recorded that the townland name Gortnaskeagh derived from ‘an old whitethorn bush which grew over a holy well’ (KAS). Neither the well nor the bush could be precisely located.The above description is derived from the pu Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Rectangular stone-lined trough. Stone-built rectangular covering, roofed by lintels on inside, ‘hipped’ shape on outside. Water from well drained by stone-lined channel dug into field. Still venerated. (Roberts, 1988). Myler (1998, 25) records ‘from the Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer