Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cnoc Fola, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cnoc Fola
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Altnapeaste
- Coordinates
- 55.15487, -8.27274
- SMR number
- DG023-002----
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 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
OS 23 (Precise location not discovered) 5. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as 'There is a Holy Well under Cnoc Fola or Bloody Foreland. It has no name beyond Tobar Faoi Chnoc or Tobar Ailt na Peiste, but an occasional person still " walks " the turus. Twice each day the tide covers it, yet during ebb tide its water is said to be fresh. An old man over 100 years old never heard a saint's name on this well' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 152). (Ó Muirgheasa No. 51).
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 02 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.