Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Glebe (iveragh By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (iveragh By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobergobnet
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobergobnet
- Coordinates
- 51.94741, -10.13451
- SMR number
- KE080-018----
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
Tobergobnet/Tobar Ghobnaite: This spring well is located at the side of an old trackway about 200m SE of Killinane Church and graveyard (KE080-016001-). It is housed in a drystone-built, lintelled structure which is built into the slope. Three rough, cross-incised slabs are located in front of this structure. A pattern was formerly held here on the 3rd of March (OSL).
See attached colour photographs of holy well 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. 1070. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 July 2013
References
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.