Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Leataoibh Beag, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leataoibh Beag
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberteh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberteh
- Coordinates
- 52.15253, -10.36356
- SMR number
- KE042-117----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 3 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
Toberteh/An Tobar Te (the warm well): This well is now very overgrown but it has previously been described as 'a rapid spring about 5 feet (1.5m) in diameter' (OSNB Kilmalkedar, 34) and more recently as a 'marshy hollow' (Ó Danachair 1960, 74). Stations were performed at it until about 1810 or 1820 (OSNB). It is located in the corner of a field at the foot of the NE slopes of Lateevemore.
See attached photographs of Toberteh, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.18.00350 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31314; F025.18.00351 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31315.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 953. 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: 25 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.
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.
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Nearby in the register
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- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.