What is recorded here

All Saint's Well in Dromavrauka, County Kerry, wears five cross stones, but the largest leans behind the water like a tired sentinel. Pilgrims cut a plain twenty-centimetre cross into its face, marking prayer on rock rather than writing names. The well gives water, the stones give witness, and the local area keeps both without explaining itself.

One of five cross-inscribed stones (see KE076-015002-, KE076-015003-, KE076-015004-, KE076-015005-) adjacent to All Saint's Well (KE076-015----). This, the largest stone (H 1m; Wth 0.55m), leans against a rock outcrop behind the well and pilgrims have incised on it a plain cross (0.2m x 0.2m; D 0.01m). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Probably dating to the early Christian period (5th–10th centuries AD), this cross-inscribed stone may have served as a religious marker or pilgrimage aid associated with the nearby All Saint's Well. Such stones often had devotional or commemorative functions, reflecting Christian traditions in the area.

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