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Ladys Well in Ballyda

Holy well
Ladys Well in Ballyda
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According to the OS Letters (1839), ‘There is a holy well called Lady’s Well in the Townland of Ballyda, much venerated still and frequented on the 15th of August by great numbers of devotees’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 274 (92)). O’Kelly (1969, 180) also mentions this well, stating that it is, ‘still frequented on the 15th of August for devotional purposes’.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK023-075

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Pictures: A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Eirian Evans, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Martin Richard Phelan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Charles Vallancey, Rev Joseph Turner (Life time: died 1812 / 1835), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Dave Henderson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; R. A. Nonenmacher, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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