Changing Landscapes ~ Killinure Wart Well

I first surveyed our Blackstairs & Mount Leinster map over 2012-13 and am currently recompiling the whole map from scratch to bring it to the same standard of detail as our more recent mapping. In the course of this, I’ve noticed that a wee copse of trees around what is/ was called the Killinure Wart Well has been cleared over the intervening decade. The Wart Well or Stone itself is a shallow depression in a granite boulder, possibly a man made bullaun stone or a natural hollow. This contained water in wet weather and a traditional remedy for hand/ foot warts is/was to dip in these stoney hollows. The site is not a national monument, just a known local heritage site. It may still be there in the land cleared for ploughing but the lovely little sheltery copse of trees that I recall has gone.

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