Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
An Cluain, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Cluain
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.85325, -10.24380
- SMR number
- KE088-057----
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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
Not marked on the OS maps, this holy well was located on the roadside adjacent to a ceallúnach burial ground (KE088-031----). Known locally as Tobar an Cheallúnaigh, it was formerly visited on Good Fridays, when rounds included a visit to the nearby burial ground (Sugrue 1993, 40). No surface trace of the well survives.
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. 1059. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 July 2013
References
Sugrue, D. 1993 An Examination of Aspects of Tradition relating to some Ceallúnaigh in Uíbh Ráthach. Unpublished MA thesis, UCC.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.