English:
Saint Eigneach's Well, also named St. Columbkille's Well, in the townland of Lenan is located at Mamore Gap at the place where, according to tradition, Saint Eigneach meditated. He was a local saint of West Inishowen. Eigneach is also written Egney or Eigne. To the site belongs beside the well a Lourdes Grotto and a statue of Padre Pio. This is a pilgrimage site since centuries, originally in June on the saint's feast day, then to August 15th, the feast of the Assumption. See Padraig O Riain:
A Dictionary of Irish Saints
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ISBN
978-1-84682-318-3
, p. 289; Brian Lacy:
Archaeological Survey of County Donegal
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0-9508407-0-X
, entry 1706 on p. 305; and the information panel at the site.