What is recorded here
Leac Chonaill holds a holy well where clean water still rises beside the hill. People may have knelt at its edge, poured drinks for the dead or washed fevers before medicine had names. The rock remembers every hand that touched it, even when human memory fades.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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