Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Cathair Scoilbín, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cathair Scoilbín
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.20006, -10.32781
- SMR number
- KE034-142002-
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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
A spring well (KE034-142001-) over which there was an upright slab with an incised cross-and-circle (Ó Danachair 1960, 77). There is a vague tradition that this was a holy well. There is no trace of a well or a cross-slab at the location indicated by Ó Danachair. However, the well marked on the 2nd edition of the OS map about 100m to W may be the one in question. This is now surrounded with a modern concrete tank and there is no trace or local knowledge of a cross-slab.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 930. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.