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Holy well

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A spring contained in an irregular stone-lined pool, at the foot of a rocky knoll beside the public road overlooking the Aughrim river. The name probably means 'well of the old town' (an tsean bhaile).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI040-001

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