Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bawnard East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bawnard East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Colemans Well (1934)
- Coordinates
- 51.88084, -8.15741
- SMR number
- CO076-048001-
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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 E boundary townland, in formerly wooded area. Sunken stone-lined well; surrounded by low stone wall. Five roughly engraved cross slabs at intervals against wall. Probably no longer in holy use. According to Power (1940, 26), large boulder beside well 'is regarded with local veneration; in it is a circular cavity 7" x 2", also a smaller depression 3" x 2".
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
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Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.