Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Gowlanes, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gowlanes
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.80334, -10.04909
- SMR number
- KE098-086001-
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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
KE098-086----, locally known as Tobar Na Bearnan, is located just below Windy Gap close to the summit of Eagles Hill.
It was the final station of the Kilcrohane turas or pilgrimage (KE106-032003-), which was formerly held in late July/early August, and its water was reputed to cure eye conditions (Ó Suilleabháin 1945, 24). The well is located on the SE side of a low cairn of slabs and quartz, and beside it is a slab, .4m x .2m, which features an incised cross with a smaller cross in each of its angles. Lying beside the slab is an elongated stone point, used for making the sign of the cross on it.
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. 1073. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 31 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.