What is recorded here

Three rough slabs marked with crosses still stand before the lintelled well at Tobergobnet, where people once gathered on the 3rd of March. The water rises through a slope-side chamber built of dry stone, feeding an old trackway that bypassed Killinane Church. Perhaps travellers drank there before prayer, or mothers brought children to wash in water that never stopped moving. The crosses do not decorate; they warn, identify, or belong to someone whose name the stones kept when every other record disappeared.

Tobergobnet/Tobar Ghobnaite (KE080-018----) is a spring well is located at the side of an old trackway about 200m SE of Killinane Church and graveyard (KE080-016001-). It is housed in a drystone-built, lintelled structure which is built into the slope. Three rough, cross-incised slabs (KE080-018001-, KE080-018002- & KE080-018003-) are located in front of this structure. A pattern was formerly held here on the 3rd of March (OSL). 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. 1070. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

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