What is recorded here
Not marked on the 1842 OS map, on the 1916 OS map it is marked as 'Purtaheen'. Situation Description: O'Donovan (OSNB) mentions a holy well in this townland, but he does not give it a name. No trace of this well could be found. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 923.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE014-024
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Neville Goodman, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- Bernard, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- Adrian Platt, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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