Sunday's well

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Sunday's well

Description of Well Item Type Metadata

1 Name of well and saint

Sunday’s Well. Dedicated to the King of Sunday or Christ.

2 Townland, County, GPS

Raffeen, County Cork

3 Physical description of well and its surroundings

According to Amanda Clarke’s Blog, the well is located down a small boreen off a steep roadside. The wellhouse fits into the bank and is supported by built up stone walls of limestone lintel. The basin is semi-circular with a flat slab in the front for paying respects. The supporting wall on the left has a cross etched into it and is now very mossy. The water is fresh, clear, and abundant and runs from the well into a stream on the other side of the bank. The area is rich in ferns and palms.

5 Pattern day

It is a Sunday’s Well, dedicated to the King of Sunday, Christ himself and was presumably visited on this day in the past.

6 Offerings

It seems there may have been five cross-inscribed stones originally at the well but only one remains.

7 Prayer rounds and stations

Amanda Clarke’s Blog provides information from a source. Casey, writing in 1983, recorded that rounds were performed here forty years ago.

9 Publications

Clarke, Amanda. "Gazetteer." Holy Wells of Cork. Accessed November 4th, 2018. https://holywellsofcork.com/gazeteer/.

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