What is recorded here

St. Michaels Well (Site of) is a natural spring in County Galway, Ireland, dedicated to St Michael the Archangel. It sits beside a farmhouse, enclosed by a crescent-shaped stone wall and reached by two flag steps. The water likely sustained nearby lives for centuries, offering drinking water, ritual cleansing or quiet prayer. Its position near a church suggests it belonged to a larger sacred landscape before the garden and farmhouse formed around it.

In a garden adjacent to a farmhouse. A natural spring well, dedicated to St Michael the Archangel, enclosed by a crescentic-shaped mortared stone wall (L 4m, Wth 2.7m). Access via two flag steps at E. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 126), the well originally lay closer to a church (GA043-037----). 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

Linked to St Michael the Archangel, the well is associated with traditional Catholic devotions and may have been a site of pilgrimage or prayer, particularly for protection and healing. Such wells were often visited on St Michael’s feast day (29 September) with offerings of coins or flowers.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.