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Enclosure in Miskaun Glebe

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What is recorded here

St Patrick's holy well is situated in a natural amphitheatre (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank planted with deciduous trees on the perimeter W-N-E, which is on the NE bank of a N-S stream. The enclosure is described as a 'fort' on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map and the perimeter is cut by a road bank at NE. There is a modern well, still in use, but an earlier circular holy well (LE021-006001-) is under the rag-tree (LE021-006003-) to its W, and another defunct rectangular well (LE021-006004-) is E of the present well. The well is approached from the E by a path from the public road.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE021-006002

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  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Pampuco, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791; Ledwich, Edward, 1738-1823, continuator, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Rod Allday, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John Darcy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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