Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Curraghrour West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghrour West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernaheena (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.13903, -8.84436
- SMR number
- CO031-056----
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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 overgrown area, on S floodplain of River Blackwater. Area of well dry and overgrown. No longer in holy use. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 225) as holy well called 'Tobar-na-hAoine - Friday Well' where rounds were paid on Friday, Saturday and Sunday throughout the year. He adds that 'A hood is over this well being capped by a large flagstone, on which it is said mass was offered up during the Penal Days.' (ibid.). McCarthy (1991, 88) noted that mass was offered here 'in the bad times'.
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.