Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Sunday'S Well, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sunday'S Well
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sundays Well (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.89708, -8.50037
- SMR number
- CO074-054002-
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 S-facing slope, on N side of River Lee, lies Sunday's Well which gives its name to the area. Due to road widening in 1946, stone building over well removed and well covered by road; 'stone tablet' on building with inscription 'I.H.S., Sunday's Well 1644' placed on wall adjoining road (O Coindealbhán 1946, 160). Plaque survives, but rounds no longer made here. Shell midden (CO074-05401-) immediately to W of well.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/
Sunday’s Well, courtesy of the Linehan Collection, Cork Public Museum CO074-054002-_04
Sunday’s Well, courtesy of the Linehan Collection, Cork Public Museum CO074-054002-_05
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.