Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Oughtihery, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughtihery
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.96638, -8.85242
- SMR number
- CO060-198----
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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
Wet area overgrown with trees and bushes; some moss-covered stones visible through overgrowth. According to local information, site of holy well dedicated to St James. Farm trackway once connected well with road to E; people came from "Rylane and all around" to pray here. No longer in holy use. Bullaun stone (9234) by roadside c. 200m N of well; Brash (1879, 133) recorded that stone 'lay formerly near a holy well in adjoining field'; probably same well which he (ibid., 133-134) described as having an 'insignificant appearance', and 'dedicated to no saint'; he noted also that 'certain rounds and washings at the well, were deemed a specific for rheumatic pains and other ailments'.
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
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Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 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.