Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Inch, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inch
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ladys Well (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.80181, -8.17465
- SMR number
- CO100-013004-
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 field by roadside. Well enclosed by circular stone structure (H 1m; diam. 1.5m). Roofed with slabs and cement; hole in roof. Pipe at base carries water away; pumphouse nearby. According to Power (1940, 104) 'No devotions are now performed at the reputed holy well'.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.