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Brides Well

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Situated in a complex of buildings, on Brideswell Street, on the SE side of Athlone town. Annotated ‘Brides Well’ on the 1837 OS 6-inch map and the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map where it is depicted as a circular feature. Well described in 1982 as no surface remains visible. The area where it is indicated on OS mapping is occupied by a small garage. A small stream lies c. 20m to SW and the land beyond to S is marshy. Monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Situated in a complex of buildings, on Brideswell Street, on the SE side of Athlone town. Annotated ‘Brides Well’ on the 1837 OS 6-inch map and the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map where it is depicted as a circular feature. Well described in 1982 as no surface remains visible. The area where it is indicated on OS mapping is occupied by a small garage. A small stream lies c. 20m to SW and the land beyond to S is…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM029-021

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Pat Byrne, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Sgbrito at Portuguese Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Christophe Krief, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Nigel Thompson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Peter Gerken, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Engraving by Johannes Tangena. Leyden: Johannes Tangena, Print en Bockverkooper 1691., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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