
What is recorded here
Kilmoon on Sherkin Island holds a holy well where ritual life still shadows the water. The place belongs to County Cork and carries the old purpose of a drinking or healing site rather than a forgotten hole in the ground. People may have knelt at its edge, poured out wine or tea, and left coins or cloth for the drowned gods who never stopped watching.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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