Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Knockyrourke (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockyrourke (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Laghteens Well (Site of) (1939)
- Coordinates
- 51.99765, -8.74977
- SMR number
- CO050-097----
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
Marked 'site of' on 1842, 1904 and 1939 OS 6-inch maps. On W side of N-S road. Muddy patch indicates site. According to Hartnett (1939, 198), local tradition that well removed itself to Garryadeen (CO051-089----) because an unclean act, offensive to St Lachtaín, was committed here:- a young woman washed her garments or feet in the well.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.