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Saint Augustine's Well

Saint Augustine's Well is a holy well on Lough Atalia Road in Galway, County Galway, 663 m east of Eyre Square. St. Judes Lodge B&B Galway, Yeats College and The Urban Nest are within 193 m.

Kind
Holy wells
Street
Lough Atalia Road
From Eyre Square
663 m east
Parking
Corrib Centre Car Park, 737 m away
Bus stop
Yeats College (Bus Éireann), 125 m away

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Plan of the streets around Saint Augustine's Well, 340 metres across
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Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Saint Augustine's Well, 340 metres across

Getting to Saint Augustine's Well

By car
Park at Corrib Centre Car Park, 737 m away, paid.
By bus
The nearest stop is Yeats College, served by Bus Éireann, 125 m away.
Directions from where you are
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While you are there

Lough Atalia Road itself has 7 named places on the map.

Other sites within 3 km: Lough Atalia (348 m), Seán Duggan (415 m), Magdalene Laundry (449 m), Eyre Square (653 m) and Kennedy Park Playground (667 m).

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. 98 m
  2. 161 m
  3. 193 m
  4. Ardawn House
    Guest houses
    223 m
  5. 232 m

Also on Lough Atalia Road

  1. Centra
    Convenience stores
  3. Lough Atalia
    Bike hire
  5. Texaco
    Petrol stations

Everything on Lough Atalia Road

Other holy wells around Galway

  1. 8.1 km
  2. 11.6 km

All 3 holy wells around Galway

Questions people ask

Where is Saint Augustine's Well?
On Lough Atalia Road in Galway, 663 m east of Eyre Square; the nearest car park is 737 m away.
Are there other holy wells nearby?
2 other holy wells around $Galway; the closest is Tobernasorney, 8.1 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/1867143308, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.