Holy well in Killickabawn, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

The Ordnance Survey Letters (1838-40) noted 'In the townland of Killickabawn in this parish there are two fields, one at each side of the road; the one called the Big Killeen and the other the little Killeen; the well which gives the name to the townland of Holy Well lying contiguous to these fields' (O'Flanagan 1928, 78).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI013-048

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