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Lady Well in Flemingtown

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Natural spring well situated in an area of rock outcrop adjacent to farm buildings. Enclosed by a recently constructed ditch and bank which was built to keep farm animals out. Annotated 'Lady Well' on all editions of the OSi historic maps. Described by Ó Danachair (1958, 72) as a 'small pool c. 5 ' x 3', between 2…

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Natural spring well situated in an area of rock outcrop adjacent to farm buildings. Enclosed by a recently constructed ditch and bank which was built to keep farm animals out. Annotated 'Lady Well' on all editions of the OSi historic maps. Described by Ó Danachair (1958, 72) as a 'small pool c. 5 ' x 3', between 2 flat rock in the corner of a small garden, with a good spring. No devotions now, but known as a holy well'. Lady Well described in 1974 by Henry A. Wheeler as a small pool with concrete dam, apparently used for watering animals' (SMR File 14/05/1974). Comprises a roughly circular, water filled depression into which modern field drains empty. It was once a large structure and water was channeled through the rock into a small stream (Skyvova, 2005, 51). Geophysical prospecting within the field immediately to the east of the holy well picked up natural and ferrous anomalies but no definite archaeological sites (Nicholls & Shiel, 2005). See attached photos (04/05) taken by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F024.06.00139 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16655 and F024.06.00140 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/30785.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU001-004

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