What is recorded here
A holy well located c. 365m NNE of St Bridget's Church, Kilree (KK027-044001-). According to the OS Letters (1839), 'It springs from under a remarkable rock situated to the right of the road as you go from Kells to Kilree. Stations were performed and a Pattern was held at this well not many years since on St. Bridget's Day, the 1st of February' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 62 (20)).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK027-042
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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European ash3.5 miPictures: Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Harryreid, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Eirian Evans, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Dave Henderson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Martin Richard Phelan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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