By 1916, the Ordnance Survey had quietly downgraded this small well in Kildarra, Co. Mayo, adding that parenthetical word, "Site of", that cartographers use when something has slipped from living use into memory. The well itself still exists, a circular pool just 0.7 metres across, now enclosed within a concrete surround and sitting in open pasture at the base of a south-facing slope.

The 1838 six-inch OS map recorded it simply as "St Bridgets Wells", suggesting it was then a recognised and functioning site. Holy wells dedicated to St Bridget were once gathering points for the pattern, a distinctly Irish form of communal devotion combining religious observance, prayer circuits, and social occasion, typically held on or around the saint's feast day of 1 February, or sometimes on a locally fixed date. According to local information, this well was precisely that kind of focus, a place where people gathered in St Bridget's name. At some point between the mid-nineteenth century and the early twentieth, that practice faded. The well did not vanish, but the life around it did. Roughly 100 metres to the north-east, Kildara church and its associated graveyard remain, lending the immediate area a quiet density of old sacred association.