Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Baile An Bhuaidh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile An Bhuaidh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernabien (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.89048, -9.08320
- SMR number
- CO070-067----
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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, c. 60m to S of burial ground (CO070-066----). Now out of use and in disrepair. Present position of stones indicates that well was originally rectangular (2.2m x 1.5m), lined on three sides with upright orthostats and covered with lintels. Locally known as useful for "bone cures". According to O'Donoghue (1986, 235), 'Tobar na bPian (well of the pains)'.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.