Somewhere in the low-lying fields of Dunfierth, a holy well has effectively vanished from sight, leaving behind only damp ground as evidence of its former presence. The name gives a clue to its character: Fuaran, or Furan as it appears on early maps, derives from the Irish word fuar, meaning cold, a description applied to springs whose water remains noticeably chill regardless of season. Cold springs were frequently venerated in early Irish tradition, and this one was locally regarded as a holy well, placing it within a widespread practice of attributing spiritual or curative properties to natural water sources.

The 1838 first-edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map marks it as Furan Well and positions it at the western corner of a moated site, a type of medieval enclosure, typically a raised platform surrounded by a water-filled ditch, associated in Ireland with Anglo-Norman settlement from roughly the twelfth century onward. The pairing of a sacred well with such a site is not unusual; earlier ritual significance often attached itself to, or was absorbed into, later settlement patterns. A similar Fuaran well survives in the nearby townland of Boghall, suggesting the name, and perhaps the tradition, was applied to more than one local spring. Writing in 1979 to 1980, Jackson recorded the Dunfierth site as still holding local memory as a holy well, though by that point nothing remained visible above ground.

Today the well itself cannot be seen, but the ground in the area reportedly stays wet underfoot, hinting at the spring still moving somewhere beneath the surface. A small fenced-off area near the southern corner of the moated enclosure may mark the position of a covered well or spring, though nothing is confirmed. It is the kind of place where absence is itself the point, a site that persists mainly as a wet patch in a field and a name on an old map.