What is recorded here

Indicated is the Pan Well in Athenry, a small stone basin still leaking iron-rich water beside the Clarin River. People may have drunk from it for centuries, testing red-stained lips or washing copper pans until the metal gleamed. The flat pastureland holds no monument, only a low drystone wall and a quiet outlet pointing southwest. What is missing is not data but witness: the hands that cupped the water, the children who played at its edge, the women who carried it home in clay pots. The well continues doing what it has always done, giving itself without naming the reason.

In flat pastureland c. 60m to the E of the Clarin River and within the medieval walled town of Athenry (GA084-001----). Named 'Spa Well (Chalybeate)' on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this well is known locally as the 'Pan Well' because its base consists of a subcircular stone basin (0.53m N-S; 0.51 E-W; D 0.13). It is enclosed by a circular drystone wall (diam. 0.68m H 0.4m), one to three courses high, and the outlet is to the SW. Another well (GA084-001017-) lies c. 168m to the SSW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 November 2019

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