Christian Sites

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

Folklore collected from Ballymacelligott School recorded the following tradition: ‘Faill Dearg (Red Cliff) well is in Nohoval in Richard Burkes land. Seaghan Taidhg Óig Linehan (1845 – 1910) saw rounds made there. So he told Tom Flynn’s (born 1891) of “” Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

To SW of Templebreedy church (CO150-030002-). Site not located due to overgrowth. (Day 1904, 22).The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork’ (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In cert Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

To N of Templebreedy church (CO150-030002-). Site not found due to overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork’ (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Bowman (1934, 554) recorded holy well in J. Sheehan’s land called ‘Tobar na Suil- (Well for the eyes)’…’Rounds have long since been discontinued.’ Exact location not known. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated on the N side of a stream at the foot of a steep bank. Rough oval hollow (dims. 2m x 1.5m) defined on three sides by loose stones and small boulders. The hollow is now dry. The OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1928, 69) mention the tradition of tying rags Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Not marked on any ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on top of a ridge beside a disused roadway on the N shore of Lough Meelagh. A dry depression with an inscribed concrete cross erected in 1932 over it. There is no indication of antiquity but it is stil Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

To W of Kilmeen Church (CO121-049003-). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork’ (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Natural spring, rises under rock outcrop, enclosed by randomly-set stones forming rectangular box. Wall of roughly-set pebbles to NE: hawthorn tree grows over well. No longer in holy use.The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological 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 research Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Located c. 60m S of Ballyvourney graveyard (CO058-037009-). Well marks final station in St Gobnait’s pilgrimage (Harbison 1991a, 134), where ‘water is taken, and a series of Paters, Aves and Glorias are said’. Approached by gravel path flanked by iron ra Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Well (diam. 18ins; D 2ft 6ins), 6ft S of door of St Gobnait’s House (CO058-034001-), thought to be contemporary with it; now reconstructed with stone surround and two steps leading down to water; venerated as holy well (O’Kelly 1952, 20).The above descri Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer