What is recorded here

Doire An Fhéich holds Tobar Naomh Phádraig, a holy well trapped beside a busy road inside a working quarry. The junction of ancient devotion and industrial extraction creates unusual tension. Water still escapes the wounded earth while heavy machines compress the land around it. The well remains a live marker that even progress must navigate older forces.

On E side of a road in a quarry. Known locally as Tobar Naomh Phádraig, it consists of a natural spring which has been interfered with by blasting. It is said that the man who did this fell and broke his leg on the same day two years running (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Linked to St. Patrick, the well is associated with local legends of divine retribution; the story of the man who injured himself after blasting the spring reflects a folk belief in the sanctity and protective power of holy wells.

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