What is recorded here
Marked similarly on the 1837 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the marshy S shore of Clogher Lake (dims c. 1 km E-W; c. 100-200m N-S), c. 50m from the lake. Regarded as a holy well with a cure for headaches (OS Name Books), it was used in 1971 as a domestic water source (Gannon 1972) but is no longer visible at ground level. Crannog (RO010-031----) is c. 180m to the N at the N edge of the lake.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO010-032
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
TobernooneHoly well · 522 ydMoylung Castle (in ruins)Castle, unclassified · 608 yd
IndicatedGraveyard · 614 ydMoylurg HouseCountry house · 660 ydCroghan SchoolSchool · 1.3 miLough Key Forest ParkWood · 3.2 miHorse-chestnut3.5 miWestern Redcedar3.6 miBoyle AbbeyHeritage attraction · 3.8 miCastle IslandIslet · 3.9 miHog's IslandIslet · 4.7 miBattle of Curlew PassMajor battlefield · 5.4 mi
IndicatedGraveyard · 614 yd
Moylurg HouseCountry house · 660 yd
Croghan SchoolSchool · 1.3 mi
Lough Key Forest ParkWood · 3.2 mi
Horse-chestnut3.5 mi
Western Redcedar3.6 mi
Boyle AbbeyHeritage attraction · 3.8 mi
Castle IslandIslet · 3.9 mi
Hog's IslandIslet · 4.7 mi
Battle of Curlew PassMajor battlefield · 5.4 miPictures: Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; jbraine, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0; Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; abdallahh from Montréal, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0; Digital Eye, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Suse, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Gavigan 01 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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