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Some 200m N of a church (GA056-055001-), adjacent to a small stream. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 187), it was called 'St. Eny's holy well ... a large and venerable ash tree grows over it'. No visible surface trace survives. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA056-058

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