What is recorded here
Listed as ‘Holy well’ in the RMP (1996) with the IG 12892, 19991 (ITM 528888, 699947). On inspection in 1999 this was described as being near the E end of a lowlying damp field with a huge natural boulder nearby to the E. It was apparently a simple ‘well’ enclosed by a drystone wall at S with a large upright limestone…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL010-021007
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