Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilmagoura, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmagoura
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Crannavella Tree (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.33857, -8.78916
- SMR number
- CO002-079003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, c. 60m N of burial ground and church (14596,14436). No visible surface trace. 'Crannavella Tree' marks site on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps; tree no longer survives though it stood within living memory. According to local information, tree said to have grown on site of holy well which moved to Newtown South (14027) after clothes were washed in it; second local story relates that it was used as a hanging tree.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.