Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Agharinagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Agharinagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sundays Well (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.91571, -8.71141
- SMR number
- CO072-028001-
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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
One of two wells (CO072-028001-) on either side of narrow stream valley. Overgrown and inaccessible. Rarely used when visited by Hartnett (1939, 223), who noted 'small spring well, covered, except for a small opening by a horizontal slab'. Above this was a shelf, formed by second slab, on which votive offerings were placed. Crosses deeply incised on both slabs. Rounds were made at both wells on three successive Sundays. Local tradition that mass was celebrated here in Penal days.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.