Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballymichael, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymichael
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.85038, -8.86120
- SMR number
- CO083-154----
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
In rough pasture, on a N-facing wooded slope on the SW side of a road. According to local information, there was a holy well, with a corbelled stone covering, behind the Lissardagh ambush monument. It was removed and there are no visible remains of it.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.