Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Knockanare (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockanare (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Winifreds Well (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.22529, -8.63882
- SMR number
- CO017-063----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Not marked on 1842 and 1906 OS 6-inch maps. On N bank of Awbeg River; site of battlefield (14695) on S bank. Site inaccessible owing to dense overgrowth. Probably well referred to by Jones (1902, 237) as 'Tubber Brawka' where, after a battle 'about the time of the Christian era the Druids of the Irish army immersed the wounded and washed their wounds in its waters which had such a miraculous effect that they were in perfect health the next day'.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.