Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Beheens West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beheens West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40707, -9.49292
- SMR number
- KE016-028----
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
Not marked on any edition of the OS maps, it was known locally as 'Tobar Uí Laighin' (Folklore Commission of Ireland 1938-39).
Situation and Description: This well lies SW of a levelled burial ground (KE016-029----). The well is thought to have been dedicated to St Brigid.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 925. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 3 August 2013
References
Toal, C. 1995 North Kerry Archaeological Survey. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.