What is recorded here
Ten paces wide and thirty long, the buried ground slopes northeast beside a holy well and an ancient cooking pit. It vanished from later maps, yet the shape remains beneath rough pasture, waiting for rain or memory to reveal it.
Shown as irregular area (c. 10m x c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Not shown on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. In rough pasture, on NE-facing slope. No visible surface trace evident. Holy well (14002) immediately to S; fulacht fiadh (11002) c. 10m to E.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Kilcolman WellHoly well · 20 yd
Kilcolman Lodgehouse · 285 yd
BoherbrádaghRoad, road/trackway · 594 yd
Castle Barrett (in Ruins)Castle, Anglo-Norman masonry castle · 3.2 mi
Castle BarrettCastle · 3.2 mi
In loving memory of Elvis O'DonoghueMemorial · 3.6 mi
Lyradane MountainMountain / peak · 5.4 mi
Mount Hillary - Knightfield LoopWalking route · 6.0 mi