Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Rahoneen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahoneen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernahornah
- Coordinates
- 52.32128, -9.81321
- SMR number
- KE020-050001-
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 is marked on the 1841-42 OS map as a circular enclosure, but on the 1897 OS map as 'Toberna- hornach'.
Situation and Description: This well has been completely covered over and no surface trace can be seen. Immediately to the S lies a univallate rath (KE020-050----).
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 913. 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.