What is recorded here

Toberavilla is a spring well beside the medieval church at Kilcrohane, where a small cross-incised slab rests on a low drystone cover. The water has likely drunk by travellers, cattle and children for generations, while the cross marked the place as familiar rather than forgotten. Behaghane still keeps that much of the old world intact: a church, a field, a well and a stone bearing a cross.

Toberavilla/Tobar an Bhile (KE106-032003-) is a spring well is located c. 30m WNW of Kilcrohane Medieval church and graveyard (KE106-032001-). It is covered by a low drystone structure, on top of which lies a cross-incised slab measuring .44m x .12m x .1m thick. 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. 1054. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

Probably dating to the early Christian period (5th–10th centuries), the cross-slab may have served as a Christian memorial or as part of a ritual site associated with the nearby well. Such stones often carried symbolic or devotional significance, possibly linked to local saints or healing traditions.

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