What is recorded here
This is a natural spring well in a hollow at the base of a cliff. No tradition of devotion. (Ó Danachair 1958, 74). Known as Tober Caillin it survives as a slight pooling of water on rocky foreshore. Holy well described in 1975 as a; 'small stream flowing down onto rocky strand. No regular pool but one or two natural…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU008-022
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Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Eirian Evans, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Jonjobaker, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
- jwd, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.ireland.ie
- St Maur’s GAA club photograph; individual photographer not stated, www.maurs.ie
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