What is recorded here

Indicated is a holy well in County Kilkenny, Ireland, marked on a Grand Jury Map at the edge of a valley floor. By 1987 the sacred water had become a cattle pump, capped in concrete and stripped of its ritual identity. The transformation reveals how easily devotion yields to practicality, leaving behind a buried memory rather than a vanished one.

At the edge of a valley floor, in rolling pasture. This is indicated on a Grand Jury Map as a holy well. When inspected in 1987 the well was in use as cattle pump and was capped with concrete. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 September 2017

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