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Brinsley McNamara came across the Legan site while exploring the back roads of Longford
A site in Legan has featured on Brinsley McNamara's Weird Ireland.
The hugely popular social media account - which chronicles the weird, the wonderful, and the highly unusual from throughout Ireland - currently has a following of 343,000 followers on Instagram, and 100,000 followers on TikTok.
On this occasion, Brinsley - while travelling through the back roads of Longford, specifically Legan - came across the gated entrance to what he later discovered was a penal era worship area.
The site itself contained a wort cure well by the gate and rows of outdoor pews in front of a stone altar.
A number of sacred artefacts can also be seen on display in a nearby whitethorn bush.
You can watch Brinsley's reel below:
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