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Tobairín Naomh Anna

Tobairín Naomh Anna is a holy well in the countryside 6.8 km south of Béal an Daingin, County Galway. Loch Tan is within 129 m.

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Holy wells
From Béal an Daingin
6.8 km south

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Plan of the country around Tobairín Naomh Anna, 1.8 km across
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Getting to Tobairín Naomh Anna

From the town
6.8 km south of the bridge in a straight line; it is out in the country, so allow for the roads.
Directions from where you are
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Around it

Other sites within 3 km: Loch Tan (129 m), Loch Ghleann Trasna (1.3 km), An Lochán (1.8 km), Loch Thoirbirt (1.8 km) and Loch Bran (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. 129 m

Other holy wells around Béal an Daingin

  1. 6.8 km

All 2 holy wells around Béal an Daingin

Questions people ask

Where is Tobairín Naomh Anna?
In County Galway, 6.8 km south of Béal an Daingin.
Are there other holy wells nearby?
1 other holy well around $Béal an Daingin; the closest is Tobar Mhuire, 6.8 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/13732769035, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.