Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cinn Aird Thiar (tc Cinn Aird), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cinn Aird Thiar (tc Cinn Aird)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernastellagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernastellagh
- Coordinates
- 52.11984, -10.20329
- SMR number
- KE053-081001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Tobernastellagh/Tobar na Stéilleach: According to Ó Danachair (1960, 78), no tradition survives regarding this well, now contained within a concrete surround.
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. 949. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.