No stone surround, no hollow in the earth, no votive offerings tied to nearby branches. Whatever was once here has been absorbed entirely into the ground.

The name alone is enough to invite speculation. Holy wells, sacred springs venerated across Ireland since pre-Christian times and later absorbed into Catholic devotional practice, are typically identified by a patron saint or a religious association, and this one fits that pattern on the surface. But the case is not straightforward. A presbytery, the residence of a Catholic priest, was marked on the same OS maps just 70 metres to the north-east, and it is entirely possible that the well took its name simply from that nearby building rather than from any tradition of sanctity or pilgrimage. The two explanations are not mutually exclusive, but neither can be confirmed. What makes the ambiguity interesting is the company the site keeps: a holy well lies 160 metres to the south-south-west, and another named well sits 125 metres to the west-south-west. This small corner of north Galway was, evidently, well-watered in ways that people thought worth recording and naming, even if the reasons are now difficult to recover.