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Saint Abigail's Well — KILGOBNET

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Saint Abigail's Well — KILGOBNET
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Holy well, built c. 1800 around earlier well, standing in graveyard established c.1720. Facing north. Roughly rectangular-plan sandstone structure over St Abigail's Well, having corbelled stone roof and walls with plinth. Front elevation painted. Carved limestone plaque over stone-lintelled entrance to front elevation, with inscription 'St Abigail expelling the plague AD 1872'. Steps down to well itself, with square-headed niches to each side of passage. Carved stone grave markers to graveyard, with some elaborate tombstones and later polished grave markers. Rubble sandstone boundary walls with painted rubble sandstone piers with caps and double-leaf wrought-iron gates, with sandstone steps and having stile to north side.

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