Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
An Baile Riabhach, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Baile Riabhach
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberbreeda
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15122, -10.33186
- SMR number
- KE043-208----
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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
Toberbreeda (Tobar Bríde) consists of a small spring and shallow pool at the NW corner of a sluice reservoir about 200m to S of Tobermanaghan (KE043-141----). Stations and rounds were formerly performed here (OSNB Dingle, book 2, 15).
Ó Danachair (1960, 72) recorded the following details about this well; 'A rapid spring issuing from the foot of a high bank. Not known by name now. "Stations and rounds were performed at it formerly" - OSNB. Legend : In the year 1834 clothes were washed in it and it dried up for twenty-four hours - OSNB'.
See attached photographs of Tobar Bríde, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.18.00346 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16902; F025.18.00347 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31316.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 923. 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
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.