What is recorded here

Lady Well is a disused holy spring in County Cork, Ireland, buried on a steep pasture slope. Water still forces through the earth into a crude trough, bypassing the history of prayers and rituals that once gathered around it. The well has lost its sacred function but keeps its physical life, feeding animals or wasting clarity on grass.

In pasture, on steep SSE-facing slope. Spring, rising from within slope; water piped into trough flanked by railway sleepers. No longer in holy use. 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

Linked to a local tradition of the "Lady," potentially a Marian devotion or a regional female saint, the well was once visited for healing and blessings, though specific cures are not recorded. The site's decline in religious use may be associated with broader 19th- or 20th-century secularization or changes in local land use.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.