At this spring near Mannin in County Galway, dedicated to Saint Cronan, there was none of that. When inspectors visited, the enclosed area was partially overgrown, the boulders that frame the well quietly doing their work, and no votive offerings were visible at all.

The well is a natural spring, set off from a small SE-NW running roadway on its northern side. Someone, at some point, took the trouble to lay out a rectangular border of set boulders around it, roughly five metres north to south and three metres east to west, with the stones spaced loosely enough that the water can flow freely through them rather than be contained. That water feeds a small pond and stream immediately to the north. Two large ash trees grow just to the west of the enclosure, and the whole arrangement sits about fifty metres north of a tower house, the kind of fortified stone residence that was a common feature of late medieval Connacht. The proximity is suggestive: holy wells and the households of local lords often occupied the same landscape, each lending the other a certain gravity. Saint Cronan himself is a relatively common dedicatee in the west of Ireland, though the precise history of devotion at this particular site is not recorded.