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Holy well in Kilnamanagh Lower

Holy well

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Kilnamanagh graveyard (WX021-024003-) is marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it is situated on a gentle E-facing slope with the headwaters of a small W-E stream just to the N. The well is indicated on the same edition of the map, but it was not remembered if it was ever venerated, according to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 93). The well is a natural spring and is the source of the stream, but there is no evidence of veneration.
Kilnamanagh graveyard (WX021-024003-) is marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it is situated on a gentle E-facing slope with the headwaters of a small W-E stream just to the N. The well is indicated on the same edition of the map, but it was not remembered if it was ever venerated, according to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 93). The well is a natural spring and is the source…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX021-024002

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