Sacred Ireland by Jon Michael Riley Ireland1 | Page 24

St. Mary’s Well on the Portmagee-to-Ballinskelligs
road. The structure is like a half clochan, with St. Mary
inside and the pool of spring water directly in front.
To the right is a small flat stone where many inscribe a
cross with a small stone.

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Within a smaller structure to the front left of St. Mary is
a kneeling St. Brigid praying to her. In the lower left is
the well itself. This is a carefully tended well with even
a solar-powered streetlight opposite for evening visitors.

St. Mary’s Well faces a tiny road that rises sharply uphill from Portmagee harbor.

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