Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Doughcloyne, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doughcloyne
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Bartholomews Well (1933)
- Coordinates
- 51.86828, -8.50580
- SMR number
- CO086-006----
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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
Beneath bridge carrying now disused old Cork-Bandon railway line. No visible surface trace. The well was destroyed when the railway line was laid down; it was described as 'walled and covered with an arch of stone' with 'an avenue of large sycamore trees leading to the well'; a 'patron' was held there on St Bartholomew's day and the water was said to cure 'sore eyes, pains of the limbs, etc.' (O Coindealbháin 1946, 162).
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
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.