Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Creggolympry North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creggolympry North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.13937, -8.33339
- SMR number
- CO035-067----
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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
At foot of cliff, on edge of flood plain of River Blackwater. Square well (0.7m sq.; D 0.78m) covered with canopy of mortared stone (H 1.1m); kneeling stone in front under which water flows from well. Repaired and replastered c. 1964. Known locally as 'Peggy's Well'. Possibly same well as that referred to by O'Shea (1947, 90) in grounds of Cregg Castle (14883) and which was 'regarded locally as holy' though 'no saint's name is connected with it. The well has a carefully built canopy of flagstones.'
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.