Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballythomas (kinsale By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballythomas (kinsale By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1934)
- Coordinates
- 51.73580, -8.49110
- SMR number
- CO112-076----
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
Inaccessible due to overgrowth; holly bush marks spot. According to local tradition once a 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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.