Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballynamona (condons And Clongibbon By., Brigown Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (condons And Clongibbon By., Brigown Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.25502, -8.25723
- SMR number
- CO019-116----
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
Canon Courtenay Moore (1908, 64-65) was shown 'the Well of St. Paul' on the boundary of the land of John Kent, 'a beautiful spring well' with a 'parochial reputation'. Landowner located site of holy well, now closed in with no visible surface trace. Bullaun stone (13911) found on same farm.
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
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.