Holy well in Drumharkan Glebe, County Leitrim

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Located at the bottom of a W-facing slope, in a triangular grass-covered field (dims c. 60m N-S; c. 30m E-W at N) with mature deciduous trees that is at the W end of a lane. A small, dry, shallow opening (diam. 0.4m; D 0.35m) is defined by stones (ext. diam. 1.2m), and known as St Creigharee’s Well. The name is a corruption of Cruimhthear (presbyter or priest) Fraoch, the founder of the early monastery (LE033-006001-) at Cloone. A cairn (dims 9.5m NE-SW; 4.5m NW-SE; max. H 0.7m) is adjacent to the NW, and a concrete shrine (dims 1.05m x 0.7m; H 2.7m) erected in 1950 is surmounted by a concrete cross and has a niche with statues. A pattern was held on the last Sunday in July, called 'Garlic Sunday', until c. 1860 when it was transferred to the well at Kiltoghert (LE027-079---) (MacNeill 1962, 606).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE033-023

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