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St. Bridgets Well in Camagh

Holy well

What is recorded here

On the E-facing slope of a slight ridge with limestone outcrop and scrub. A sunken cleft (dims. 0.7m x 0.7m; D 0.35m) forms the well, now dry, located in a concrete surround (dims. 3.8m N-S; 2.3m E-W) with a timber seat nearby and gravel paths approaching it. A pattern was held on February 1st in the 19th century (O'Flanagan 1929, 98).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE025-009

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  • Bryan Keane / Inpho, www.irishexaminer.com
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Fifiheavey, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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