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Cloonoran Well

Cloonoran Well is a holy well in the countryside 2.4 km south of Moylough, County Galway. Castle Bellew House and Castle Bellew are within 145 m.

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Holy wells
From Moylough
2.4 km south

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Plan of the streets around Cloonoran Well, 340 metres across
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Getting to Cloonoran Well

From the town
2.4 km south of the village 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: Castle Bellew House (77 m), Castle Bellew (146 m), Lough Nalareagh (1.3 km), Enda Colleran Memorial (2.4 km) and Moylough Castle (2.8 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. Castle Bellew House
    Historic houses
    77 m
  2. Castle Bellew
    Ringforts and sites
    145 m

Other holy wells around Moylough

  1. 2.8 km
  2. 6.2 km
  3. 8.8 km
  4. 9.9 km
  5. 10.4 km

All 6 holy wells around Moylough

Questions people ask

Where is Cloonoran Well?
In County Galway, 2.4 km south of Moylough.
Are there other holy wells nearby?
5 other holy wells around $Moylough; the closest is Polladirk, 2.8 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/12980616020, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.