Holy well, Gardens, Co. Kilkenny
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Holy Sites & Wells
In the townland of Gardens, County Kilkenny, a holy well sits quietly recorded but largely undescribed.
Holy wells are among the most widespread and quietly persistent features of the Irish landscape, points where pre-Christian reverence for water sources was absorbed into Christian practice, the wells rededicated to local saints and visited on pattern days for prayer, ritual circumambulation, and the tying of votive rags to nearby trees or bushes. That this particular example carries a monument record at all tells us it was noted and considered significant enough to log, even if the details behind that record remain sparse.
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Gardens, Co. Kilkenny
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