Tobermacduagh

Part of the monastic complex of Kilmacduagh, this holy well is at the roadside, c. 200m to the SE of the round tower (GA128-034008-). Dedicated to St Colman Mac Duagh (Fahey 1893, 112), it consists of an overgrown dried-up spring well enclosed by a semicircular drystone wall (2.9m N-S; 2.1m E-W). A holy tree (GA128-034016-) stood c. 50m to E. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 October 2016 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/2009).

Dedicated to St Colman Mac Duagh, an 8th-century Irish saint and founder of the monastery at Kilmacduagh, the well was historically associated with healing rituals and pilgrimages. Though now dried and overgrown, it reflects a long tradition of holy wells linked to monastic sites and saintly intercession in early Christian Ireland.