What is recorded here

St. Coran's Well in Seafield, County Cork, is a roadside ritual site where pilgrimage revived in 1975 on the saint's February feast day. People may have knelt at its water for centuries before that plaque appeared, asking for health or simply watching rain fill the stone basin. The ornate gabled cover and roughly incised cross suggest the well remained visible enough to protect, decorate and remember. What is certain is that the place still invites return, which is the purpose of any holy well.

Roadside well known as 'St. Coran's Well'. According to plaque pilgrimage to well was revived in 1975 on saints feast day February 9th. Well is covered by ornate, stone-built, gabled structure. Roughly incised cross towards top of structure. 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 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

Linked to St. Coran, a lesser-known early Irish saint, the well is associated with healing and pilgrimage, particularly on the saint’s feast day, February 9th. The structure and revived pilgrimage suggest a continuity of local tradition, though historical records of St. Coran are sparse.

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