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Castle Well

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Castle Well
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What is recorded here

On the E side of a stream in an area of marshland and c. 110m SW of the castle (KK020-022001-) with which it is associated. The ‘Castle Well’ is a natural spring in a muddy hollow hugging the E bank of a fast-flowing stream. It is heavily overgrown with gorse and brambles and there is no evidence that it was stone-lined.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK020-022002

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