Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Carhue, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carhue
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.95164, -8.70593
- SMR number
- CO061-181----
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
O'Sullivan (1955, 4) noted a holy well in this townland -'Tobairin Beannuighthe'. He described 'collapse of stone work of old well' with an ancient whitethorn tree nearby, at which 'rounds no longer made' (ibid.). Exact location not known. According to local information, some older residents bless themselves when they pass place thought to be location of well, "somewhere along the road" which runs N-S between Carhue and Ballymacoo townlands.
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
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.