What is recorded here
This well is located just off the Croghan road on the south side of the Croghan hill. It is currently located in an area of overspill of slurry. The well is now housed in a small concrete house 1m cubed. The water level is approx. 2m below the surface.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF010-011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Downan Grave YardGraveyard · 4.6 miPictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Sarah777 at en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Dylan Moore, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Kenneth Gallery Smyth, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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