Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Scarteen (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scarteen (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09785, -9.51953
- SMR number
- KE058-162----
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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
In rough pasture, in a marshy area on the S side of an E-W field boundary. There are no visible remains of this holy well which was known as 'Tobar an Bulláin' (CPCK vol. 2). According to local information, it was filled in many years ago.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
References
CPCK A Collection of Placenames for County Kerry (6 vols.), compiled by Éamon Lankford between 2001 and 2003. Kerry County Placename Archive. Kerry County Library, Tralee.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.