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Lady Well

Lady Well is a holy well in the town in Ahascragh, County Galway, 145 m south-west of the bridge. St. Cuan's Church and Greenes Homevalue Hardware are within 174 m.

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From the bridge
145 m south-west

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Plan of the streets around Lady Well, 340 metres across
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Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Lady Well, 340 metres across

Getting to Lady Well

Directions from where you are
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While you are there

1 shop within 300 m, including Greenes Homevalue Hardware.

Other sites within 3 km: Lisburn (994 m), Windhill Fort (1.0 km), Lisnawoo (1.6 km), Coarse Fort (1.8 km) and Lisphilip (2.2 km).

What a holy well is

A holy well is a spring or small pool that people hold sacred, older in most cases than the saint whose name it now carries. The water is usually said to heal, through the saint or the spirit thought to live in it, and the story often has the saint striking the spring from the ground. Wells were, and in places still are, sites of pilgrimage and small rituals: prayers, rounds walked in a set direction, and offerings left behind, with strips of cloth tied to a nearby tree in the Celtic countries.

The first book devoted to them was Philip Dixon Hardy's Holy Wells of Ireland in 1836, written as a Protestant attack on the Catholic customs he found at wells named for saints; it took until the end of that century for the term to settle into its plain modern meaning. The wells around Tuam are mapped as springs with their old names, tobar being the Irish word.

Written from Wikipedia, "Holy well" (CC BY-SA 4.0); the words are ours.

Within a short walk

  1. 87 m
  2. 174 m

Other holy wells around Ahascragh

  1. 9.8 km
  2. 9.8 km
  3. 10.4 km

All 4 holy wells around Ahascragh

Questions people ask

Where is Lady Well?
In Ahascragh, County Galway, 145 m south-west of the bridge.
Are there other holy wells nearby?
3 other holy wells around $Ahascragh; the closest is Yellow Well, 9.8 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/13732233559, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.