Lady Well

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.