What is recorded here

Sunday Well is a blocked stone chamber on a Cork hillside where people walked rounds chiefly on Easter Sunday. The wall encloses darkness instead of water, preserving the shape of repeated devotion rather than the life of flowing proof. It is a ritual address paused mid-sentence, waiting for someone to remember the difference between seeing a hole and knowing why the hole was cut.

On hillside. Enclosed by rectangular stone wall; roofed with slab; opening blocked. '"Rounds" were made here chiefly on Easter Sunday' (Power 1918, 221). 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 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

Linked to Easter Sunday rituals, the well was historically associated with rounds or processions, reflecting a tradition of seasonal pilgrimage and devotion. Its roofed, walled structure suggests a site of spiritual significance, though no specific saint or cure is recorded in connection with it.

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