Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloch Eidhneach, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloch Eidhneach
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Wells (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.90007, -9.13458
- SMR number
- CO069-030----
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 N face of rock outcrop. Two wells, c. 0.2m apart, cut into bedrock. E well (0.75m x 0.55m; D 0.45m) lies 0.6m below top surface of outcrop; W well (0.85m x 0.6m; D 0.4m) at top surface. Two shelves to E carry votive offerings. Three crosses incised on stone between wells; quartzite pebbles around edges. Locally known as "St Lachtaín's well". According to Murphy (1897, 280), St Lachtaín's festival, which occurs on the19th of March, 'used be observed with great solemnity and with a pilgrimage to his....wells in the parish'.
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.