Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bray, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bray
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.89236, -10.39844
- SMR number
- KE087-082----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This spring well, not marked on the OS maps, is located on the N side of the trackway which leads to the top of Bray Head, Valencia Island. It was housed within a drystone structure which is now very ruined. There is a vague local tradition that it was a holy well. A crozier is reputed to have been found in it (Pochin Mould 1978, 42), and it is known locally as Tobar Bachaillín.
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. 1055. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 July 2013
References
Mould, D. Pochin 1978 Valentia: portrait of an island. Dublin. Blackwater.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.