Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloghfune, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghfune
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.61435, -10.09923
- SMR number
- CO126-044----
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 rough grazing land, at the base of a field boundary on a N-facing slope. Spring water flows into an irregular opening (0.8m E-W; 0.5m N-S; H 0.8m) under the field boundary. Stones are placed on the N side of the opening, from which the water flows down the hillside. It is known locally as a holy well.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.