What is recorded here
In a narrow depression at the base of a W-facing slope of a hillock, on the W margins of a graveyard (MA015-031002-). There is a medieval church (MA015-031001-) 90m to SE on top of the hill. Indicated on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps as ‘Holy Well’, the rectangular housing (int. dims. 1.05m E−W; 0.6m N−S; H 0.82m)…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA015-031003
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- N Chadwick, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
- Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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