Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloonshear Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonshear Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobereendowney (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.86466, -9.05726
- SMR number
- CO082-006----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At foot of slope, in heavy overgrowth. No visible surface trace. According to O'Donoghue (1986, 245), 'Tober Ri an Domhnaigh (well of the king of Sunday) at which "rounds" were performed'.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Slab-lined burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.