What is recorded here

St. Bridgids Well in County Galway is a spring trapped inside a tiny oval drystone chamber, opening westward a hundred metres from a church. The stones exclude rain yet admit breath, suggesting people valued clarity more than grandeur. A woman might have knelt there at dawn, washing fever or sorrow from her hands before entering the village. The well still gives water without asking whether the drinker believes.

Some 100m SSW of a church (GA018-027002-). It consists of a spring well enclosed by a small unroofed oval drystone chamber oval drystone chamber (E-W 0.6m, N-S 0.5m) opening out to W. (Melvin c. 1971, 15) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

St. Brigid's Well is associated with the veneration of St. Brigid of Kildare, a prominent Irish saint linked to healing and fertility. Traditionally, the well may have been visited for its curative properties, particularly for women's ailments, and was likely a site of seasonal rituals or pilgrimages.

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