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Bishops Well

Holy well
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What is recorded here

Reference to a holy well here known as Bishop's Well (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 58). Remains of a shallow pool of water (D c. 1.3m).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA028-014

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Keith Weller, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Gareth James, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Wikimedia Commons
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Alf Harvey / Laois Nationalist, www.laois-nationalist.ie
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