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'St. Anthony's Well' : Holy Well

TownlandKillina
CountyOffaly
Grid RefN 272 238
GPSN 27245 23804 (5m)
Longitude7° 35' 29.96" W
Latitude53° 15' 50.05" N
Nearest TownTullamore (6.8 Km)
OS Sheet48
UTM zone29U
UTM x593934.59571854
UTM y5902553.3893934

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Visit Notes

Sunday, 6th July 2008

The well is now marked as St. Anthony's Well, but the 1830s OS maps show a different name. The site is very well kept and has good access, which was a pleasant surprise, because so often you have to fight your way through brambles and thorn trees to reach holy wells.

The well house is very megalithic-looking with huge boulders built into its structure. On the day of my visit the well was dry.

The enclosure around the well has a number of large boulders with modern inscriptions such as Famine, The Normans, Plantation and Penal Times - someone around here wants to remember all the bad things!

Also in the enclosure there is a mass rock and a bullaun stone (see subsite).

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