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Burial ground in Threewells

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Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. Quadrangular enclosure (dims. c. 25m x 25m) defined by a drystone-faced wall with a well-defined entrance (Wth 2m) believed locally to be a graveyard. A late 18th-century headstone, came from the adjacent farmyard and a holy well (WI034-018----) lies 20m to the NE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI034-017

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