Christian Sites

The precise location of the holy well in the townland of Bigwood has not been identified. In 1937-9 the following folklore about this holy well was recorded from Finea National School; ‘St. Bridgets Well is situated on Maoil Hill, Carlanstown, Castletow Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated on the summit of a hill known locally as ‘The Hill of Mael’ with panoramic views of the surrounding countryside in all directions. Cashel (WM003-008—-) standing inside a large possible trivallate hillfort (overall diam. 370m E-W) with possibl Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Incorporated into wall on roadside. Well enclosed by concrete blocks; open to NE; roofed with single slab. No longer in use.The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork’ (Dubl Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In damp low-lying pasture, c. 150m S of the Owenbeg River and incorporated into a field boundary. A D-shaped well (0.8m NW-SE; 0.8m NE-SW; D 0.4m) recessed into rising ground SE-NW and faced with stone (H 1.5m). A flat concrete slab, on which the visitor Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

A fresh water spring surrounded by a pile of stones situated below the high tide mark on the E side of the Clonmany river. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as ‘Local tradition has it that St. Patrick, accompanied by his sister and her two sons, came t Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

A holy well (Ó Muirgheasa, No. 30) dedicated to St. Columbkille is surrounded by a penitential cairn (DG080-002002-) 30.8m N-S × 7.8m E-W and 1.4m high. Standing on top of this cairn is a cross-shaped slab (DG080-002003-), .93m high × 0.2m wide (arms Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On a rock called An tlfearnáin, to W of Birmore Island. Known locally as Tobar Bhréannáin, it consists of a natural pothole, exposed at low water, said to be a holy well. Not visited. (Robinson 1985, 53) The above description is derived from the publ Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Bishop Hugh’s Well or Tobar Aidan is depicted on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Natural spring well located at base of S facing ridge in marshy area with view of Foyran Church (WM001-042—-) and graveyard (WM001-042001-) 230m to WNW. Spring well Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

A dried up well called Cloch Breac (Speckled Stone) associated with St. Patrick. It appears that Smith, who became landlord of Blakestown in 1849, closed the well and built up the roadside fence at this point to stop people trespassing, after the road wa Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Situated on a fairly level landscape. St. Kevin’s Well, which was restored in 1990, is across the road to the SW of the site of St. Caomhán’s early church that became the medieval parish church of Diamor (ME015-056001-). It is a D-shaped corbelled str Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 498), in Boggan townland, ‘there is a well called Tubber na Cruchthanee, or, as the old people explain the name, Well of the Holy Cross’. O’Kelly (1985, 28) also mentions this well, calling it, ‘Tobar na Croiche Naoi Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

In flood plain on SW side of Funshion River, just N of Glanworth. Well overgrown; water runs off to NE; site marked by sandstone plinth (1m x 1m; H 1m) to SE; no longer in holy use. Smith (1750, vol. 2, 344) described ‘a fine spring, bubbling out of a li Monument Type: Ritual site […]