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Ritual site - holy well

Baile An Chalaidh, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Baile An Chalaidh, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Baile An Chalaidh
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.17137, -10.43501
SMR number
KE042-154----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Ó Danachair (1960, 77) recorded the following details about a well which he located in the townland of Ballynaglisha; '" Tobar na bhFaithni" - local. "Saghas tobair leighis " An Seabhac, op. cit.'. Site visited on the 10/10/2000 and described as situated on a gently NW facing slope of mixed pasture near the cross-roads to SE of Ferriter's Cove. There is no surface trace of a holy well at this location or in the surrounding area (SMR File).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of reised upload: 29 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.

Seabhac, An. 1939 Triocha-Céad Chorca Dhuibhne. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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