Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilnamucky, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnamucky
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Anns Well
- Coordinates
- 51.93457, -8.59963
- SMR number
- CO062-160----
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
Named St Ann's well on the 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps but not indicated as an antiquity. It is not indicated on the 1842 OS 6-inch map. According to local information, this well was used to provide water for St Ann's Hydropathic Establishment c. 400m to the S and is now covered with concrete. In his notes on the parish of Inniscarra compiled c. 1955, Mr D. J. O'Sullivan suggests that the name St Ann's Well is probably derived from 'Santan's Well', Santan being a disciple of Finbarr (UCC).
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hydrounder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.