Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballinagroun, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinagroun
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.15346, -9.94383
- SMR number
- KE045-095----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 Ghobnait is a natural spring which reputedly had the power to cure sore eyes. Rounds have not been made here in recent times (An Seabhac 1939, 200). Ó Danachair (1960, 70) recorded the following details about this well; '"Tobar Ghobnait" - local. A well in a marshy field, in a tangle of willows and briers. Known to have been a holy well, but no devotions'.
See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 911. 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: 1 November 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.
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.