Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killarney
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.05835, -9.51023
- SMR number
- KE066-110----
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
According to local information, during a recent retail development a holy well was covered over. There are no visible remains of the well but a lane to the S of it is named 'Well Lane South'.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Fever hospitalunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.