Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Coolroe More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolroe More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberaviller (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.09473, -8.87354
- SMR number
- CO040-090----
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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
Not shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Circular (diam. 1m) stone-lined well now abandoned and overgrown. According to Bowman (1934, 246), 'called Tober abhile (well of the old tree)...rounds have long since been discontinued. The site of this well is said to have been changed owing to floods from the mountain. The well is now covered in with flagstones. Mr O'Callaghan found a cross-inscribed stone c. 2 feet long by 1ft near the well, about 30 years ago (1905).'
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.