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Toberaleen

Holy well

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Square depression (Wth c. 2m) filled with water, from which flows a stream. Said never to run dry. No longer in holy use. 'Toberaleen - Tober a'Lin (well of the flax)' (O'Donoghue 1986, 9).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO130-029

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