Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Castlecor Demesne, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlecor Demesne
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21317, -8.80913
- SMR number
- CO024-003----
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
In pasture, c. 210m NW of Abbey (14383). No surface trace remains. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 429) as holy well called 'Tobar na h-Aille (Well of the Cliff). Rounds have been discontinued and the well has been dry for years'.
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
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Schoolunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.