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St Catherine's Well

St Catherine's Well is a holy well in the town in Aughrim, County Galway, 154 m west of the village. Aughrim Park, Saint Catherine's Hall and Aughrim Playground are within 76 m.

Kind
Holy wells
From the village
154 m west
Bus stop
Aughrim (Bus Éireann), 213 m away

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Plan of the streets around St Catherine's Well, 340 metres across
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Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around St Catherine's Well, 340 metres across

Getting to St Catherine's Well

By bus
The nearest stop is Aughrim, served by Bus Éireann, 213 m away, with a shelter.
Directions from where you are
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While you are there

Other sites within 3 km: Aughrim Park (59 m), Aughrim Playground (76 m), Battle of Aughrim Interpretative Centre (110 m), General St Ruth's Fort (1.1 km) and Cooke's Lough (1.1 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. 59 m
  2. Saint Catherine's Hall
    Community centres
    67 m
  3. 76 m
  4. 80 m
  5. 110 m
  6. 123 m
  7. Emo
    Petrol stations
    164 m
  8. John Burke
    Petrol stations
    183 m

Other holy wells around Aughrim

  1. 2.0 km
  2. 10.4 km
  3. 10.9 km
  4. 11.9 km

All 5 holy wells around Aughrim

Questions people ask

Where is St Catherine's Well?
In Aughrim, County Galway, 154 m west of the village.
Are there other holy wells nearby?
4 other holy wells around $Aughrim; the closest is St Commadan's Holy Well, 2.0 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/13732239521, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.