Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hermitage
Cloonnafinneela, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonnafinneela
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.34811, -9.61570
- SMR number
- KE022-023001-
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
According to O’Hare (1996, 64), some stones near Toberflyn holy well [KE022-023----] were ‘said to be the ruins of St. Flann's hermitage'.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 28 February 2014
References
O'Hare, P. 2000 Holy wells and other sites of pilgrimage within a portion of East Kerry. Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 29, 55-98.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.