Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Léim Fhir Léith, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Léim Fhir Léith
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Keatings Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Keatings Well
- Coordinates
- 52.18431, -10.31293
- SMR number
- KE043-012----
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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
Keatings Well/Tobar Chéitinn: According to An Seabhac (1939, 123), this is not a holy well. However, an alternative name for the site is 'Tobar Naomh Céitinn’ (Ó Danachair 1960, 78) and there is a local tradition that rounds were made here 'hundreds of years ago'.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 955. 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.
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.