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Holy well in Foher

Holy well

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On S side of track leading E from Salrock Pass. Known locally as St Joseph's Well, it consists of a small, roughly rectangular, water-filled hollow delimited by small fliat blocks of stone. Some coins are visible, as are the remnants of a small cairn immediately to S (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA011-010

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Pictures: Newbert12, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Britishfinance, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Alan Reid, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Gordon Dunn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Textman at Dutch Wikipedia ( Original text: Textman ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5; dalvenjah on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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