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Holy well in Ballyshane (glenquin By.)

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Holy well in Ballyshane (glenquin By.)
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In level pasture. Well consists of spring in earth-cut pool (diam. 2.3m; D 0.65m) with outflow drain on N side. Outflow runs N-S joining SW-N. Had gone out of use by 1950s (Ó Danachair 1955, 211) though OS Name Books record it as 'a holy well … celebrated for curing lameness and blindness' (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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