Holywell, holy well in County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked as a holy well only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on marshy ground in the valley of the W-E Urrin River with the stream c. 70m to the N and the N-S River Slaney is c. 125m to the E. Nothing is visible in a scrub-covered area. Archaeological testing (94E0129) immediately to the S produced no archaeological features (Channing 1995).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX026-003

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