What is recorded here
Part of the monastic complex of Kilmacduagh, this holy well is at the roadside, c. 200m to the SE of the round tower (GA128-034008-). Dedicated to St Colman Mac Duagh (Fahey 1893, 112), it consists of an overgrown dried-up spring well enclosed by a semicircular drystone wall (2.9m N-S; 2.1m E-W). A holy tree (GA128-034016-) stood c. 50m to E. 3/2009).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA128-034010
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- Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Dr Charles Nelson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Dr Charles Nelson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Lucarelli, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- The Banner, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Robert Bone, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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