Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Carhan Lower, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carhan Lower
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobarnamanfune
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobarnamanfune
- Coordinates
- 51.94710, -10.20891
- SMR number
- KE079-048----
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
Tobernamanfune/Tobar na mBan Fionn: This spring well issues from the foot of a slight scarp in Carhan Woods on the N slopes of Bentee mountain. A series of stepping stones cross a stream at the approach to the well. Rounds were formerly made here, and local tradition holds that crying goddesses gather at the well on the 1st of May.
See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1058. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.