Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Rooves Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rooves Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sundays Well (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.88711, -8.79658
- SMR number
- CO072-060----
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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, beside road. Spring well enclosed by stone-built arched recess. Wooden shelves beneath arch contain votive offerings. Cross inscribed on nearby stone by pilgrims. Hartnett (1939, 121) records local tradition that woman, who dreamt she would be cured by paying rounds here, was restored to health after making rounds. Three visits were required for a cure - two successive Sundays and intervening Friday. Locally known as "tobairín Aifrinn", where mass was celebrated during Penal times (ibid., 122).
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.