Holy well GA046-062---- in Killosolan

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What is recorded here

According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 240), 'It is said in the country that there is a well called Tobar na Slainte, the well of health, Fons Salutis, at Killosolan village, but when I went there I could get no one to point out a well of the name'. Not located. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA046-062

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