Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Derrygarriv (glanarought By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrygarriv (glanarought By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernawahnee
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.84221, -9.56259
- SMR number
- KE102-006----
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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
In rough heather-covered grazing land, on the N-facing slopes of Knockeirka. A holy well, named 'Tobernawahnee' is indicated here on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. The well consists of an irregularly shaped natural depression (L 0.8m; Wth 0.6m; D 0.4m) in outcropping rock. Water flows into the depression from a spring at the base of a vertical fissure in the N face of the outcropping rock. There is a hut site (KE102-006001-) c. 50m to the E.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.