‘Tobermacduagh’

In flat pastureland. Known locally as ‘St Coleman’s Well’. On inspection this holy well was defined by a natural spring, roughly P-shaped in plan and enclosed by a drystone-built wall (2.2m N-S; 0.3-1.4m E-W; H 1.5m). The spring fed a domestic well immediately to the N. A slab across the N end of the spring well, c. 0.4m above the water level, formed a division between it and the domestic well. According to local information, St Colman stopped to pray, after burying the ‘King’, at a large flagstone in the field to the SW. The flagstone is said to bear the imprints of his knees. Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 May 2023

Linked to St Coleman, a 7th-century Irish saint associated with the monastery at Rahan, County Offaly. The well is traditionally visited for cures related to eye ailments and general healing, with customs including the pouring of water in a clockwise direction around the spring.