Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Baile Mhic An Daill, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Mhic An Daill
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberinirt
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberinirt
- Coordinates
- 52.12536, -10.29908
- SMR number
- KE053-014----
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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
Toberinirt/Tobar Aon Fhirt (Well of Strength): A spring well contained within a rectangular stone structure. There is a vague tradition that this was a holy well (Ó Danachair 1960, 77).
See attached photographs of Toberinirt, taken by Caoimhín Ó Danachair courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.18.00167/168/169/171 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16835; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/35493; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31427.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 921. 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.
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
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.