Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ardbeg, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardbeg
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermurry
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermurry (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.24465, -10.06369
- SMR number
- KE035-021----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Tobermurry/Tobar Muire: This was a 'small well about 2 feet (0.6m) wide and covered overhead with a flag' (OSNB Stradbally, 23) but it has now been destroyed. It was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, patroness of Stradbally Parish, and rounds were formerly made here on the 15th of August (OSL; Ó Danachair 1960, 77).
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 910. 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.
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.