What is recorded here

Holy Well Hill rises on the Donegal-Derry border, carrying a stone-lined grave beneath a cairn that still presses its walls inward. People call the summit a holy well, though no water flows there, only wind, stone and the old shape of a body kept inside the mountain. The grave tilts like a living thing resisting forgetfulness, while a forgotten survey marker sits above it, measuring what cannot be measured.

A cairn (DG047-002002-) of earth and stones 1m high surrounded by an earth and stone bank with an overall diameter of 15m. Slightly W of the highest point of the cairn is a stone slab-lined grave (DG047-002003-), 1.5m N-S and 0.85m E-W. It is tilting inwards under pressure from the cairn. A mound of stones on top of the cairn is probably the remains of a trigonometrical station. It is situated on the summit of Holy Well Hill in mountain terrain on the border with County Derry and is regarded as a holy well locally.

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