Saint Fanahan’s Well

Relaxing experience

Wonderful place to visit especially if nobody else is going there. A place of quiet contemplation. Enjoy the walk down to the well.

Evening Walk

It is one of the nicest walk you can do around Cork City. It is near to Douglas which is the most sought area in Cork as it is havinv direct connection to city centre via public transport.

Exquisite Holy Well in unique location

Saint Fanahan is the patron saint of Mitchelstown. 1400 years ago this warrior saint built his abbey in Brigown (literally “Smith’s Hill” which is quite near where the well is located).. The Holy Well...

A peaceful little pilgrimage

We made a brief stop in Mitchelstown to visit the place where my father-in-law was born & raised. We did not know anything about St Fanahan’s Well. Our guide & genealogist, Seamus Fox, told us about i...

Cure

My son Lir was in hospital for a week due to a bad infection. He was two and his sister was three. She later confessed that he was annoying her so she pushed him into the well. The following day he...