St. Patricks Well in Bunrevagh, holy well in County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

Situated in scrub and pasture on the E bank of a N-S stream, which is c. 5m distant. It is marked on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as 'St. Patrick's Well'. This may be the St Patrick's well at a place known as Cnoc and Fhiadh in Oughteragh parish (Herity 2012, 397), but that name is no longer known. An overgrown natural spring had been used locally as a water source, but there is no local knowledge of veneration.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE024-007

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