St. Fechins Bed, ritual site in County Sligo

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What is recorded here

Embedded in a low terrace abutting the W end of the N side of the platform known as St Fechin's church (SL026-011001-). A prostrate limestone slab (min. dims. 2m E-W; 1.2m N-S) is largely covered by sod. Roughly in the centre of its flat upper surface is an elongated solution fissure (c. 1m N-S; 0.25m E-W; D 0.35m). According to local tradition, the stone could cure backache. The patient had to lie flat with the spine aligned along the central fissure. St Fechin's holy well (SL026-010----) is c. 200m to N and another saint's stone, St Fechin's Stone (SL026-012002-), is c. 400m to NE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL026-011002

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