County Kerry

Cistercian monks — from Monasteranenagh daughter house of Monasteranenagh; founded 1154 founder unknown – erroneously given as a Fitzmaurice; daughter house of Mellifont; daughter house of Monasteranenagh restored; dissolved 1537 (though last abbot…

?Augustinian Canons Regular purportedly founded 7th century by St Finan Lobhar; extant 992; non-monastic church of the Holy Trinity and St Mary built on site 1158; damaged by gales 1282; erenaghs…

Not marked on the OS maps, this holy well is located on the shore close to where the Gougane river enters Portmagee Channel. It is covered by a stone and concrete structure which is surmounted by a modern cross-inscribed stone. Rounds were formerly made Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Not marked on the OS maps, this well was located c. 270m E of Kilpeacan ecclesiastical site (KE088-015001-). It was referred to locally as a holy well and was filled in during the 1940s. No surface trace of it remains. Lying face down on a field boundary Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Mass-Rock (KE064-014004-): Located in the NE corner of the site, this large boulder measures 1.3m long and .65m high. It bears three incised Latin crosses and two motifs that consist of linear grooves terminating in expansions with radial lines. Resting on its SE end is an irregularly shaped stone (KE064-014003-), measuring .39m x .29m, which […]

In a wooded area, at the base of a rock outcrop, to the SE of Loo Bridge. Spring water emerges from a fissure in the rock and forms a small irregularly shaped pool, which is the holy well. A small stream flows from the well to the NW along a stony path w Monument Type: […]

early monastic site, founded 6th century

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 bu Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In pasture, on a N-facing slope with views N over Kenmare Bay. In the 1930s Capt. D. B. O’Connell recorded this spring well as a holy well known as ‘Tobarín Mhuire’ and noted that its water cured ills, particularly toothache (KAS). It is no longer in us Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Brendan of Clonfert; episcopal diocesan cathedral founded after 1111, translated from Ratass

Dominican Friars — erroneous reference to the Franciscan Friary (see immediately above)

Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded c.1253 by Thomas Fitzmaurice Fitzraymond, Lord of Kerry, purportedly buried here; Observant Franciscan Friars refounded 1517; dissolved 1584, friars expelled, some remained in the area;(NM)

Ó Danachair (1960, 77) recorded the following details about a well which he located in the townland of Ballynaglisha; ‘” Tobar na bhFaithni” – local. “Saghas tobair leighis ” An Seabhac, op. cit.’. Site visited on the 10/10/2000 and described as situat Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Tobar Chiaráin: This ‘well’ is simply a hollow in a rock where rain and sea-spray collect. It is situated beside Wine Strand and the turas which was formerly made here each day of May also included a visit to a well in the adjacent townland of Caherquin Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Tobar na bhFaithní: Dense vegetation obscures this well which is situated in poor, marshy land, on the E bank of a stream. The water apparently had curative powers but it is not known whether the well was ever considered holy (An Seabhac 1939, 103).The Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Tobar na Sceach or Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh: This well is part of the stream which flows S through a small glen in the middle of the townland (local information) but its precise location has not been identified. Rounds were formerly made here on Sunday mor Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Tobar Ghobnait is a natural spring which reputedly had the power to cure sore eyes. Rounds have not been made here in recent times (An Seabhac 1939, 200). Ó Danachair (1960, 70) recorded the following details about this well; ‘”Tobar Ghobnait” – local. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

early monastic site founded 11th century?; Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded c.1210?; dissolved after 1555; granted to John Blake 1585; (NM)

The precise location of the holy well has not been identified. Holy well described by Ms. Hickson (1880, 363 as ‘Lismore House occupying part of its site; a little to the east of the house are the ruins of two or three tiny oratories or churches, and a Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Holy well described by O’Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 325, no. 983) as; ‘Two stone-lined wells, formerly visible within the enclosure, and an old tree at its S end, acted as focal points for a pattern that was held here on Good Fridays up until the 1950s Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]