What is recorded here

Holy Well in Killeen, County Mayo, is a dry-stone ring beside an old church, dedicated to St. Kieran and named for Colman-Mac-Duach. Good Friday pilgrims once tented nearby, and children buried without baptism may have been carried past it at night. The water is choked now, but the stones still mark a place where love and fear went down together.

In pasture, 70m E of Kilkeeran eccesiastical enclosure (MA121-065003-) and church (MA121-065001-). Circular, dry-stone wall (2.5m N-S; 2.5m E-W) encloses a well (D 2m), heavily overgrown. Dedicated to St. Kieran. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 655. Date of upload: 5 January 2015

Dedicated to St. Kieran, the well is associated with traditional healing practices and is believed to have curative properties, particularly for ailments of the eyes and skin. St. Kieran, a 6th-century monastic founder, is venerated in several Irish holy wells, often linked to pastoral and agricultural protection.

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