Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballybrack (barrymore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrack (barrymore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Michaels Well (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.02883, -8.39934
- SMR number
- CO052-006----
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
On ESE-facing slope to E of river. Enclosed in cement-covered stone wall; roofed with lintel. Stone with roughly inscribed cross atop lintel. Supports centre of stone-slab "pediment". Front damed by concrete blocks. According to O'Donoghue (1914) 'few votive offerings showing...well is still visited....'
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Image provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.