placenamesBallycurrany
Baile Charránaigh
Amanda Clarke’s field visit distinguished the well’s stone structure from figures removed for safekeeping.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Charránaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballycurrany · English · main form
Place & story
Water below the wellhouse
During an October 2016 visit to Lady’s Well at Ballycurrany, Amanda Clarke described a semicircular stone wellhouse with built-up sides and a large covering slab. Extra stones formed a niche above it. The basin appeared damp rather than flowing, while a pipe just below discharged water into a stream. These observations describe the site at the time of her visit. [2]
The carvings away from the well
Clarke also visited Cork City Museum to inspect carvings formerly kept beside the well. She recorded two roughly carved figures, one with its head detached, and a cross. Traces of blue paint survived on one figure. Her suggestion that the figures represented Mary and Bernadette was an interpretation, rather than a documented identification of their original subjects. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballycurrany. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lady’s well, Ballycurrany, 21 October 2016 · Amanda Clarke, Holy Wells of Cork & Kerry
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.