Dublin Core
Title
St. Mary's well
Description of Well Item Type Metadata
1 Name of well and saint
St Mary’s Well & Sunday Well, Walshestown
2 Townland, County, GPS
Walshetown, Cork Co
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
The wells are paved in a roughly octagonal shape approached by two steps down; empty niches lie in the surrounding curved walls.
4 Cure
tooth ache, earache and general ailments of the head.
5 Pattern day
August 15
6 Offerings
statues, flowers, candles, the votives are left on a shelf on the well
8 Stories
It will not boil, and is said to assume certain shades and volumes, each change indicating a cure or the likelihood of some disaster occurring in the neighborhood. The water of the well beneath the Mass arch is only used to obtain cures.
9 Publications
Clarke, Amanda. "Gazetteer." Holy Wells of Cork. Accessed November 31, 2018. https://holywellsofcork.com/gazeteer/.
Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S., & Sleeman, M. (n.d.). Archaeological Inventory of County Cork (Vol. 3, Mid cork).
Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S., & Sleeman, M. (n.d.). Archaeological Inventory of County Cork (Vol. 3, Mid cork).