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Holy Well in Kilnagrange

Holy well

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What is recorded here

Situated in pasture at the bottom of the valley of a NW-SE stream, with the stream c. 10m to the W. This is a natural spring covered in briars. There is no evidence of veneration or information on the associations of the well, but a stile to a roadway at N indicates useage at one time. Fews church (WA015-022001-) is c. 250m to the NW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA015-026

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