Lady Well in Naul, holy well in County Dublin

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What is recorded here

A spring well at the bottom of a ravine SE of the River Delvin. Approached from an overgrown pathway. No longer venerated (Healy 1975, 16). The well is a chalybeate spring. Circa 2000, the owner capped the spring in a concrete structure (Skyvova 2005, 59).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU004-045003

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Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
C O'Flanagan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
C O'Flanagan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Matthew Burke (@mattsportspics), credited by Dublin GAA and watermarked on photograph, www.dublingaa.ie
Maker not stated on source page, www.knowth.com
Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com

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