Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gorteen (bourney Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (bourney Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.86513, -7.85732
- SMR number
- TN023-035----
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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
According to the Ikerrin Survey the well is located in 'marshy, low-lying terrain' and 'consists of a grassed-over cluster of stones at the source of a stream' (Stout 1984, 90). 'According to tradition the water from this well cured warts, providing a penny or half-penny was thrown into one of the stones with a hollow on its surface' (ibid.). There was no evidence of any stones with hollows at the time of the Ikerrin Survey and the site could not be found during this survey.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.