Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballymichael, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymichael
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermurry (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.84616, -8.86561
- SMR number
- CO083-060002-
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
At top of hill, locally known as "Cnoc a'Tobair" (hill of the well), c. 50m N of penitential station (CO083-060001-) and possible souterrain (CO083-060003-). Stone-lined well enclosed by circular drystone structure with corbelled roof; opening to E; stone-slabbed path leads to opening. According to O'Donoghue (1986, 260), 'Tobar Muire (Mary's Well)....dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary'. Rounds paid here on September 8th (feast of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin) and at penitential station (CO083-060001-) to SW. Cross inscribed on one of three stones (CO083-059002-) c. 240m to SW may have been part of 'rounds'.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.