Christian Sites

Below and to S of 4th tee on Mitchelstown golf course. No longer in holy use; now supplies water to clubhouse. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork’ (Dublin: Stationery Office Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In demesne of Mitchelstown Castle (14317), on S side of disused millrace. Inaccessible owing to dense overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork’ (Dublin: Stationery Off Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Reference by O’Donovan c. 1837 (O’Flanagan 1931 vol. 1, 100; Herity 2010, 64) that a land surveyor named Connolly had seen the foundations of a round tower at the site of Assylin church (MO005-020001-). It is regarded as very dubious (Barrow 1979, 180). 120940,RO02855,ROTR,RO024-016006-,ROSCOMMON,KILBARRY,R163454,606712,780845,53.777144870000001,-7.898169790000000,Round tower,Not indicated,Not indicated,https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO024-016006-,The round tower Monument Type: Round tower View on […]

One large depression (L 0.6m; Wth 0.39m; D 0.9m) and three smaller ones occur in S face of rock outcrop. According to local tradition, these are holy wells. Field in which they occur known as “the Bullan”.The above description is derived from the publish Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

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

The precise location of a mass-rock in the townland of Monaghanstown, has not been recorded. In 1938 the following folklore about this rock was recorded from Dysart National School; ‘There is a place in this Parish called Monaghanstown. There is a Mass rock in a field there. Long ago there was a Priest saying Mass […]

Unlocated holy well within the townland of Monaglogh. According to Lynch (1994, 638) there is a holy well dedicated to St Patrick in the townland of Monaglogh that is mentioned in the 1930s Irish Folklore Commission, Schools Manuscript Collection (IFC Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

High Cross located in Tipperary.

purported Knights Templar

Marked but not named on 1842 OS 6-inch map; named on OS 1905 and 1935 maps. Well is at base of rock outcrop, with stream flowing in at S side and out at N side; very overgrown. Locally remembered that rounds were paid here and stone marked with sign of t Monument Type: Ritual site […]

High Cross located in Louth.

The Crosses at Monasterboice have been described in some detail by Roe (1981) and Harbison (1992) with full references. Two crosses remain complete (the South: LH021-062007- and West: LH021-062008-), while there is also the head and part of the shaft of a third (North Cross: LH021-062009-), now re-erected on a partly modern shaft. Two other […]