Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballydeloughy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydeloughy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.23393, -8.36138
- SMR number
- CO019-152----
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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 roadside field fence, on E side of field in which stands Ballydeloughy castle (14281). Hollow (dry) in base of sycamore tree known locally as St Catherine's well. According to local information, well originally located in Ballydeloughy graveyard (14539) but moved when someone washed clothes in it. Grove White (1905-25, vol. 1, 156) was informed that it held water in the driest summer and 'it is the holy well resuscitated...which was filled in a long time ago near the old church' .
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.