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St Bridget's Well

St Bridget's Well is a holy well on Saint Brigids Well in Loughrea, County Galway, 598 m east of the centre. Murphys XL and Maggie Mays are within 212 m.

Kind
Holy wells
Street
Saint Brigids Well
From the centre
598 m east
Parking
O'Dea's Hotel Car Park on The Crescent, 261 m away
Bus stop
Loughrea (Bus Éireann), 434 m away

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

Getting to St Bridget's Well

By car
Park at O'Dea's Hotel Car Park on The Crescent, 261 m away, paid. Loughrea is 33 km from Galway city.
By bus
The nearest stop is Loughrea, served by Bus Éireann, 434 m away.
Directions from where you are
Open the model above, tap the pin and choose “Directions here”; the route is drawn from your own position.

While you are there

1 place to eat or drink within 300 m: Maggie Mays (212 m).

2 shops within 300 m, including Murphys XL and Spar.

Other sites within 3 km: The Walks (479 m), Saint Mary’s Abbey (632 m), Tonaroasty Deserted Village (1.1 km), The Long Point (1.7 km) and Lough Rea (1.7 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. Murphys XL
    Convenience stores
    186 m
  2. 212 m

Other holy wells around Loughrea

  1. 3.2 km
  2. 3.6 km
  3. 7.5 km
  4. 7.5 km
  5. 9.3 km
  6. 10.7 km

All 7 holy wells around Loughrea

Questions people ask

Where is St Bridget's Well?
On Saint Brigids Well in Loughrea, 598 m east of the centre; the nearest car park is 261 m away.
Are there other holy wells nearby?
6 other holy wells around $Loughrea; the closest is Lady's Well, 3.2 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/13732538706, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.