Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killavoy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killavoy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09881, -8.85311
- SMR number
- CO040-029002-
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 S perimeter of Killavoy graveyard (14122). Not shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Marked but not named on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Well now covered by concrete surround. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 226) as holy well where 'Rounds have not been paid in living memory.' However, according to local information, a woman prayed at well in recent past.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.