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Fr. Cloney's Well

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Covered up holy well associated with a Fr Cloney who was the brother of General Thomas Cloney. Distant memories of stories told in the 1920s or 1930s about pilgrimages to the well survived in 2024.

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  • Maker not stated on source page, yandex.com
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons
  • kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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