Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Baile Dháith, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Dháith
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberkieran
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberkieran
- Coordinates
- 52.21878, -10.35695
- SMR number
- KE033-007----
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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
Toberkieran/Tobar Chiaráin: Situated on the N side of Ballydavid beach on low-lying ground within reach of the high spring tides. Described in 160 as 'a strong flow of water now issuing from a pipe in a recently-built road embankment. Still visited by a few on Christmas Day, Easter Sunday and " Hill Sunday ". Pilgrims leave some small object as an offering. Many cures are ascribed to this well (Ó Danachair 1960, 75).
See attached photograph of Tobar Chiarán, Co. Kerry, taken 1946 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.18.00054 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16786.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 917. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 13 April 2022
References
Ó Danachair, C. 1960 The Holy Wells of Corkaguiney, Co. Kerry. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 67-78.
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.