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Trinity Well

Holy well

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On the floor of the Arigna river valley, with land rising to the E, in reclaimed grassland. According to the OS Letters (1839), the holy well was 'stopped up six years ago' i.e. c. 1833 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 208 (69)). However this appears to be contradicted by O'Kelly (1969 (1985 reprint), 4), who notes, 'Holy Trinity well at which a pattern is still held on the second Sunday in July is 400 yards south-east of the church. There is a Mass bush, a reminder of fugitive open-air worship in Penal days, beside the well'. There are several springs in the area which flow into a small stream but the well itself was removed during land reclamation works in the 1970s.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK013-085

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