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A dried up well called Cloch Breac (Speckled Stone) associated with St. Patrick. It appears that Smith, who became landlord of Blakestown in 1849, closed the well and built up the roadside fence at this point to stop people trespassing, after the road was improved as part of a famine relief work. He had a new well constructed beside the road. In 1952 the well was no more than a depression in the ground among large stones and boulders. (MacIvor 1952, 265). When inspected by ASI in 1966 there was no trace of it.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 20 June 2012
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