Holy well in Bray, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

This spring well, not marked on the OS maps, is located on the N side of the trackway which leads to the top of Bray Head, Valencia Island. It was housed within a drystone structure which is now very ruined. There is a vague local tradition that it was a holy well. A crozier is reputed to have been found in it (Pochin Mould 1978, 42), and it is known locally as Tobar Bachaillín. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1055.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE087-082

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