What is recorded here

Sundays Well is a spring in County Cork where pilgrims climbed three times for health: two Sundays and the Friday between them. A woman heard that rhythm in a dream, repeated it, and lived to tell it. The stone arch still holds wooden shelves for offerings, while a nearby cross marks the patience of everyone who returned before being healed.

In pasture, beside road. Spring well enclosed by stone-built arched recess. Wooden shelves beneath arch contain votive offerings. Cross inscribed on nearby stone by pilgrims. Hartnett (1939, 121) records local tradition that woman, who dreamt she would be cured by paying rounds here, was restored to health after making rounds. Three visits were required for a cure - two successive Sundays and intervening Friday. Locally known as "tobairín Aifrinn", where mass was celebrated during Penal times (ibid., 122). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 an unidentified saint or local holy figure, the well at Sundays Well, Rooves Beg is traditionally associated with healing and pilgrimage. Votive offerings and a pilgrim-inscribed cross suggest a long-standing devotional practice, though specific cures or folklore remain undocumented.

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