Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mullaghroe North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghroe North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Laserians Well (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.11510, -9.12076
- SMR number
- CO029-076003-
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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 rough grazing, just outside NE angle of burial ground (14610). Well covered with low concrete structure; opening to E with gate. According to Broker (1937, 35), 'Hooded in 1904 by Rural District Council at the instance of Daniel O'Connor, poet and mason'. Rounds, starting at Saint's Stone (13931), occur on July 25th after mass in burial ground. Bowman (1934, 268) noted rounds on July 25th and Good Friday; also 'the "pattern"...held on the Sunday before July 25th'. Saint referred to locally as St Latiaran, a sister of Iníon Buí (see 13982) and Lasair (Ó Ríordáin 1986, 33). Grove White (1905-25, vol. 3, 89) noted mostly women attending well where all kinds of diseases were reputedly cured; he adds that there used to be a trout in the well'.
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
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Nearby in the register
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.