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Situated immediately N of a field boundary in undulating open pasture on a gentle NW-facing slope. The monument is heavily masked by dense vegetation cover. Some un-hewn limestone blocks are visible in a rough arc (Wth c. 1m) around a spring. Immediately NE of the spring is a depression (diam. c. 5m) known locally as 'the pond'. St Senan was the patron but by the mid 1950s 'there are no devotions' (Ó Danachair 1955, 202).
See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00425 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17072; F025.21.00426 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24507and F025.21.00427 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24508.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 2 October 2020
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