What is recorded here
Killavallig holds a horseshoe of burnt stone beside a holy well, marking a place where heat and water met before churches claimed the land. The mound still lies low in reclaimed pasture, its opening facing south as if waiting for hands to stack firewood and feed the basin. People may have gathered there to cook, clean or transform ordinary things through steam, while the well stood ready to give back life. The site does not shout; it preserves the rhythm of local change, recording that even forgotten fields once belonged to vigorous human practice.
In reclaimed pasture, c. 20m S of perimeter of early ecclesiastical enclosure (13881). Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (15m E-W; 12m N-S; H 0.6m); opening (Wth 3m) faces S. Holy well (14005) c. 20m to E.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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