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Holy well

What is recorded here

On W side of a track c. 40m NW of a grave site (GA022-057----). This well presently consists of a natural spring set in a recess in the roadside field bank. No offerings are visible and the well is now used for watering cattle in the summer. I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA022-056

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Newbert12, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Russel Wills, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Dr. Charles Nelson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Photographer not named by Diamond Hill Community Centre, diamondhillcommunitycentre.ie
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