Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gortacurraun, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortacurraun
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberreendoney
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberreendoney
- Coordinates
- 52.14751, -10.09076
- SMR number
- KE044-102----
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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
Toberreendoney/Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh [Well of the King of Sunday]: A spring well located in a rock cavity on the E side of the stream which forms the boundary between the townlands of Gortacurraun and Farrannacarriga. A small cross-inscribed stone is located in a small crevice a little upstream of the well. Its S face bears a simple Latin cross with T-bar terminals to shaft and arms.
Ó Danachair (1960, 71) recorded the following details about this well; 'A spring in the side of a deep gully. Much overgrown with fuchsia. No devotions now. " The inhabitants give rounds here generally on Sunday morning" - OSNB'.
See attached photograph of Toberreendoney, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.18.00191 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31410
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 939. 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
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Charcoal-making siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.