Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Dromavane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromavane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well or Murragh Well (1903)
- Coordinates
- 51.74716, -8.88282
- SMR number
- CO109-014----
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
Funnel-shaped opening of earth and stone set into natural scarp, now partially collapsed. Visited in living memory, now disused.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.