What is recorded here

Kilcolman church and its hidden holy well belong to Cork’s oldest ritual landscape. The well is no longer certain, but the area still carries the shape of prayer. A person may have knelt at that water, asked for healing, and walked away changed. The earth kept the request even after the people forgot the name.

According to Seán MacCarthaigh (I.T.A. Survey 1942), a short distance away from the site of Kilcolman church (CO124-064---) is a holy well of which little is known locally. Exact location not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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