The well is gone, filled in before 1938. The slab has been moved. And yet the object itself, a cross-slab with an incised vertical shaft crossed by six unevenly spaced grooves and the letters IHS cut into the stone, remains one of the more quietly puzzling absences in this part of the Iveragh peninsula.

When Cooke recorded the site in 1906, the cross-slab sat atop the stone heap that indicated the well's location, roughly ninety metres east of Kilgobnet church and beside a ceallúnach, a small informal burial ground typically associated with unbaptised children or those excluded from consecrated ground. The cross itself was an incised design rather than a raised carving: a simple shaft intersected by six grooves at irregular intervals. Crawford, writing in 1912, added the detail that the letters IHS, a Christogram derived from the Greek rendering of the name of Jesus, also appeared on the slab, though Cooke's own illustration of it had not shown them. By the time Harris documented the well in 1939, it had already been filled in, and at some point the slab was moved to a structure described as a circular cell at the nearby St Gobnet's church. It has not been located there since.

The well had been the focus of a pattern day on the 11th of February, St Gobnet's feast day, when rounds were made at the site, a practice involving prescribed circuits of prayer and movement around a sacred spot, and a fair was held in the village. St Gobnet herself is one of the more singular figures in early Irish Christianity, associated with beekeeping and with this part of Kerry in particular. The well, the slab, the annual gathering: all of it has dissolved into the landscape, leaving only the documentary record of what was once there.