
What is recorded here
Bellewstown in County Meath, Ireland holds a holy well, a ritual site where clean water and human belief met. The facts do not say when people first drank there or prayed beside it, but a well in a townland is never merely a hole in the ground. It is the place where thirst, memory and hope keep returning.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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