What is recorded here

Holy well in Cloghfune is a small spring chamber beneath a field boundary in County Cork, where water still flows across placed stones and down the north-facing slope. It is the kind of place people once touched, drank from or left markers beside, though no name or date has survived to say who first made it sacred. The chamber is barely large enough for a child to crouch inside, yet that little depth may be why it remained worthy of notice: clear water, a hidden entrance and a local belief that it was holy.

In rough grazing land, at the base of a field boundary on a N-facing slope. Spring water flows into an irregular opening (0.8m E-W; 0.5m N-S; H 0.8m) under the field boundary. Stones are placed on the N side of the opening, from which the water flows down the hillside. It is known locally as a holy well. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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