Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
An Tóchar, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Tóchar
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Couragh Well (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.76494, -9.16395
- SMR number
- CO093-065----
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
3In rough pasture. According to local information, well dried up as result of land drainage. Water was much sought after for butter making.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.