Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilduff (corkaguiny By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilduff (corkaguiny By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.18296, -10.00255
- SMR number
- KE045-008001-
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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
Tobar na Croise is a spring well located near the head of Kilduff valley. Rounds have not been made here for 30 or 40 years. Ó Danachair (1960, 71) suggested that this was the well from which the Ballynahunt ogham stone (KE045-016----) reputedly came.
Ó Danachair (1960, 71) recorded the following details about this well; 'This well is still visited occasionally. Nine circuits of the well are made while a rosary is recited : in the full ritual this should be done on nine successive mornings before sunrise or evenings after sunset. The well held a cure for the " evil ". An ogham stone [KE045-016----] carved with a cross now in the neighbouring townland of Ballynahunt is said to have been taken from this well'.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 942. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
References
Ó Danachair, C. 1960 The Holy Wells of Corkaguiney, Co. Kerry. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 67-78.
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.