What makes this particular well additionally curious is that cartographers and local tradition have never quite agreed on what to call it. On the 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map it appears as 'Lady Well', a designation typically associated with Marian devotion; by the 1940 edition of the same map series, the name had shifted to 'St. Patrick's Well'. Whether this reflects a genuine change in local usage, a surveyor's error, or simply the fluid way in which sacred sites accumulate and shed associations over time is not recorded.

The well lies in poorly draining low-lying ground, just twenty-five metres south of a companion site recorded as St. Brigid's Well, and the three wells together suggest that this marshy patch of Sligo once held considerable religious significance. Holy wells in Ireland, which are typically natural springs associated with a particular saint and used for patterns, prayer, and sometimes healing, are often found in groupings near early ecclesiastical sites, though no such context is documented here. The proximity of wells dedicated to, or named after, figures as significant as Brigid, Patrick, and the Virgin Mary in one small area points to a landscape that was, at some point, densely layered with devotional meaning. Unfortunately, the ground to the north-east of this well has been raised in recent times using hardcore, and no surviving physical remains of the well itself were identified during survey.