Others persist as landscape features, perhaps a low stone surround or a perpetually damp hollow that resists drainage. Lady's Well at Killavally, in County Tipperary, belongs to a quieter and more melancholy category: the well that has been deliberately erased.

The site sits in flat terrain at the base of a long north-south ridge, its western flank sloping gently away. A small stream runs north to south through the same ground, and it may be at the pool near the stream's northern end that the well once existed. When surveyors visited, there was no visible trace of any structure or sacred feature. The landowner explained that previous owners of the land had filled the well in. Holy wells, traditionally dedicated to the Virgin Mary when they bear the name Lady's Well, were focal points for patterns, the annual local gatherings that combined religious observance with communal life. The suppression of pattern days by Church authorities during the nineteenth century, combined with changing attitudes to land use and drainage, meant that many such wells were quietly absorbed back into working farmland. In this case, the act was more deliberate than gradual.