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Holy well in Glenglass

Holy well

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Marked simply as a well on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a fold on a W-facing slope at the headwaters of a short NE-SW stream that joins the N-S Milltown stream, c. 350m to the SW. It is held locally to have been the original St. Anne's Well before the present well (WX018-011----) was established c. 1.8 km to the NNW. The well is now covered in. The church site (WX018-029001-) is c. 30m to the NE and the graveyard (WX019-016----) is c. 140m to the ESE.
Marked simply as a well on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a fold on a W-facing slope at the headwaters of a short NE-SW stream that joins the N-S Milltown stream, c. 350m to the SW. It is held locally to have been the original St. Anne's Well before the present well (WX018-011----) was established c. 1.8 km to the NNW. The well is now covered in. The church site (WX018-029001-) is c.…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX018-029002

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Darrin Antrobus, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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