Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Baile Mhic íre, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Mhic íre
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernaneena (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.93790, -9.13037
- SMR number
- CO058-046----
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 pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Spring well enclosed by roughly set slabs with opening from which stream flows southwards. No evidence that well is in holy use at present. According to O'Donoghue (1986, 236), 'Toberan Aoine (well of the fasting)'.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.