Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloghore (carrickboy Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghore (carrickboy Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tetunny Well
- Coordinates
- 54.48582, -8.10014
- SMR number
- DG108-002----
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
Described in 1946 as 'This is a hollow in a shelf of rock, filled by a small spring. It is on the south bank of the river, in the gorge above Cliff House, and close to Tetunny Graveyard (DG107-073001-). It is seldom visited now, but on the occasion of our visit there were a few strips of cloth tied to the bushes about the well, tokens of "rounds" paid there. The well is dedicated to St. Brighid. All the surroundings are entirely natural; there is no masonry or any artificial object there. The well is about twelve feet over the present level of the river; thus it will be completely covered by the new water level' (Corlett 2006, 67).
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.