John Millington Synge first visited the Well of the Four Beauties (Tobar an Ceathrar Álainn) on Inishmore (Inis Mór) in 1898, a place which was to become an inspiration for his play The Well of the Saints (1905). This well, dug into a field, encircled with stones, is in the middle of Inishmore, close to Corrúch village. It lies immediately to the south of the Church of the Four Beauties (Teampall an Ceathrar Álainn), where Saints Fursey, Brendan of Birr, Conall, and Berchán are reputedly buried. This site is alive with accounts of healing: the stone flags of the saints’ graves themselves are said to have curative properties. According to his report of his visit in The Aran Islands (1906), before getting to this location, Synge “rested near the ruins of a house” and went “some distance to the north to visit one of the ancient beehive dwellings that is still in perfect preservation” (CW 2: 54). Healing wells are prevalent in Ireland and there are many accounts of people being cured using the water from these wells. Whilst some have reputations for remedying a variety of illnesses, others have more specialist cures attributed to them (Logan, Holy Wells 69). The well that Synge encountered is renowned for healing blindness, a malady that would take on a central thematic role in his play The Well of the Saints (1905).