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Holy well in Ballylaneen

Holy well

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Situated at the bottom of a NE-facing slope with a SSW-NNE stream c. 50m to the E and a W-E stream c. 90m to the N. This is a circular concrete well (diam. c. 1m) with a concrete shrine. It is within a rectangular enclosure defined by concrete walls. This is probably the Tobar Anna well known from the adjacent townland of Carrigcastle (Power 1952, 118). The well was re-opened in 1982.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA024-105

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Veekrokki, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • ethics girl, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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