Holy well in Clonmeen South, County Laois (LA033-008----)

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What is recorded here

Known as Friars' well (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 345). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'In the next field to the Abbey (Clonmeen), on the north, there was a holy well called 'Friar's Well', at which pilgrimages were formerly made in honour of some Saint now forgotten. The well is now, and has been for many years, dried up, in consequence of some act of profanation' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 345).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA033-008

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