Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Baile Uí Bhuinn, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Uí Bhuinn
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernasool
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernasool
- Coordinates
- 52.26179, -10.16077
- SMR number
- KE026-014----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Tobernasool/Tobar na Súl or Tobar an Leasa: Situated 300m from the seashore on the W side of Brandon Bay. Excavation of a drain led to the destruction of the well but it has been described as a spring about 3 feet wide (OSNB Cloghane, 30) or as 'hardly more than a muddy hole' (Ó Danachair 1960, 71-2). During the digging of the drain a 'cave' was discovered but not fully explored (local information). This may have been a souterrain and the alternative name for the well, Tobar an Leasa, suggests that there may formerly have been a ringfort in the vicinity as well.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 926. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Ó Danachair, C. 1960 The Holy Wells of Corkaguiney, Co. Kerry. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 67-78.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.