Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Sliss, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sliss
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.56493, -9.59060
- SMR number
- KE002-018----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This well is not marked on any edition of the OS maps.
Situation and Description: All that survives of this well today is a waterlogged area. There are no traces of the dressed stone steps which are thought to have led from the external ground level to the water source.
Rounds/Legends/Offerings: Fr O'Keeffe of Asdee states that no patterns or visitations have been held here in living memory, but according to local tradition these did take place in the past.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 918. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 3 August 2013
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.