Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Castlelohort Demesne, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlelohort Demesne
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.16434, -8.78523
- SMR number
- CO024-204----
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 wet pasture, within demesne of Castle Lohort (14349). Named 'Tobertaghlaghnan' on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Well covered with hood of brick, with opening on top; old hand pump to one side. According to Bowman (1934, 61), called 'Tobar Tighe Lachtnan (The well of the house of Laghtnan)...Rounds have long since been discontinued.'
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Decoy pondunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.