Christian Sites

Situated at the crest of a SW-facing slope in a small grove (dims. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW). According to Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 595) St Cooraun’s Well was venerated in the 1830s and was resorted to for the cure of infants. The pattern was held on the Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

A natural spring known as ‘Colmcille’s well’ that runs out of a rocky crevice in the south bank of the river Nanny. The bank at this point is revetted by a stone masonry wall. There is evidence for veneration with coins placed in the hollow and it is rep Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

This is a natural spring well which lies in a marshy hollow. It is dedicated to St. Moling (Ó Danachair 1958, 85). The OS Letters describe it as a blessed well called Tobar Moling beside a burying ground which had been in use up to the 1830’s (O’Flanaga Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Located at the NE edge of an oval grass-covered hollow (dims c. 27m N-S; c. 11m E-W) surrounded by rocks and scrub except at the S where it connects with a minor E-W road. It is a the bottom of an E-W valley. The mass-rock is a large, flat-topped stone (dims 1.7m N-S; 0.6-0.7m; E-W; […]

On W bank of a small stream. The spot is known locally as a holy well, and a pilgrimage was held on Lady’s Day (15th August) in the past. No visible surface trace survives, the stream has been dredged and this may have resulted in the destruction of the Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

St. Francis’ Well lies at foot of rock cliff, to rear of houses on North Mall, within stone-built well house. Entrance has wooden panel with date of 1688 in iron numbers; second room to W partially cut out of rock. Fitzgerald, in 1896 (O Coindealbháin 1 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

According to O Coindealbháin (1946, 161) ‘the well has a very small flow of water now. There is a well-kept shrine containing a statue of the B.V.M. by the side of the well. It is not frequented on a holy well nowadays’. Shrine restored in 1981; no visi Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

According to O Coindealbháin (1946, 160) upper part of twin light of ogee-headed window built into wall of distillery at foot of Wise’s Hill, placed there to mark site of ‘Tiobra Bhrianach’. Visited by people in surrounding countryside but closed up by Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

The holy well is marked on Duncan’s map of 1821. The OS Letters (1837) describe the Abbey Well which was located to the E of a burial ground associated with old Cork Abbey (DU026-068001-). This was a fine spring well, encased in brick and vaulted (O’Flan Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Benedictine monks dependent on Waterford founded c.1191; united to Bath before 1204; dissolved 1536

Knights Hospitaller (mistakenly given as Knights Templar[notes 50]) hospice rather than regular preceptory, founded before 1212, confirmed to the Hospitallers by Innocent III; built 1292; dissolved 16th century?; passed to the Crown

Listed in the SMR (1998) as holy well (unlocated). Not listed in the RMP (1995). The OS Letters (1836, 310) record that ‘There is (was?) a well called Tobar Molais in the Townland of Corcaghmore which has been this long time dried up…’ O’Rorke (1 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]