Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Inis Mhic Aoibhleáin, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Mhic Aoibhleáin
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Site of Well
- Coordinates
- 52.04414, -10.60640
- SMR number
- KE061-006006-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Inishvickillane, the southernmost of the Blasket islands, lies 7 miles SW of Slea Head and 9 miles from the nearest embarkation point at Dunquin pier. The island has an area of 199 acres and the Early Christian monastic settlement KE061-006---- lies at the SE end of the island, on the E slopes of a rocky buff which rises prominently above the remainder of the island.
(5) (KE061-006006-) A partly stone-lined depression, c. 8m NW of the oratory, may mark the site of the well noted by the OS. There is a vague tradition that it was formerly considered holy (Ó Danachair 1960, 77).
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 845. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 8 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
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.