Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Glenwood, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenwood
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Easter Sunday Well (1934)
- Coordinates
- 52.17998, -8.27952
- SMR number
- CO027-125----
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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
On N bank of Funshion River at base of cliff. Square well (1.55m x 1.6m; D 0.6m) lined with concrete and open; pipe, visible below water level, supplies water to nearby house. According to local information, 'patterns' were made here at one time. No longer in holy use.
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.