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Lady Well in Wilkinstown

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Marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as ‘Lady Well’ on both. It is located in a small NW-SE valley close to the headwaters of a small stream that is c. 1m to the S. It is a rock-cut pond (diam. c. 2.5m), now overgrown, at the foot of a cliff (H c. 3m) which rises over it to the NE. There is no evidence of veneration. Ringfort (WX036-020----) is c. 60m to the NE and Whitechurch church (WX036-021001-) is c. 270m to the NNE.
Marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as ‘Lady Well’ on both. It is located in a small NW-SE valley close to the headwaters of a small stream that is c. 1m to the S. It is a rock-cut pond (diam. c. 2.5m), now overgrown, at the foot of a cliff (H c. 3m) which rises over it to the NE. There is no evidence of veneration. Ringfort (WX036-020----) is c. 60m to the NE…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX036-019

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Simes69, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

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