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Holy well in Ballykerwick

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on a slight SE-facing slope. A spring well enclosed by a drystone wall (H 0.75m). The well is now dry due to land drainage works but the water formerly flowed out to the S through a lintelled opening. According to local information, the well is dedicated to St Laghteen. A mature beech tree grows immediately behind it. Another holy well dedicated to St Laghteen (CO050-097----) lies c. 900m to the NNE. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO050-167

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Hywel Williams, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Tim Sheerman-Chase, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Corkonian2013, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Frederick Dean, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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