What is recorded here

Holy well, no visible surface trace, but the name is recorded: Tobar a Sillee or Sellee. The cliff edge may have swallowed the basin, or the water may have stopped giving itself up. Either way, the place still points downward, inviting imagination to fill the hole left behind.

At cliff-edge on S shore of Great Island. According to Coleman (1894, 53) named Tobar a Sillee or Sellee. No visible surface trace. 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 Saint Sillee or Sellee, the well is associated with traditional healing practices and may have been a site of pilgrimage. The name suggests a medieval Christian tradition, though no specific cure or folklore is recorded in modern sources.

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