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Holy well in Glencraff

Holy well

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On hillside on N side of Glencraff. It consists of a natural spring in an irregular rock cleft under the lower edge of a slanting flagstone. Though there are no signs of offerings, the well is associated locally with a St Craff. There is a hawthorn 10m to NW and a remarkable water-worn flagstone 11m to S (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA011-003

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Pictures: Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Newbert12, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Steve Edge, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Hello, I am Bruce on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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