Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Highfield, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Highfield
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Shour Well (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.51055, -9.30721
- SMR number
- CO150-008----
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 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Roadside to N of Lough Hyne. Stone covered well at base of and set into semicircular enclosing wall (max. H 1.15m). Enclosing wall painted white with statue-filled niches and other holy objects embedded in wall. Area in front of well has spread of white quartz pebbles measuring 5m x 4m. To S, rectangular area enclosed by stones wall, stone built altar at N end. Decorated hawthorn tree behind well. Still in holy use. (Roberts 1988).
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.