No stone surround, no votive offerings, no worn path leading to it. Whatever physical form it once took has disappeared entirely into the grass, leaving behind only a name and a remarkably suggestive gap in the historical record.

The well was recorded in 1836, under the name Cuilltilinead Holy Well, with a note that Cultiliney refers to the woods of Liney. Holy wells in Ireland were traditionally sites of devotional stations, a practice involving prayer, ritual circumambulation, and offerings, usually carried out on a saint's feast day. This well, however, had its stations formally prohibited by local priests, on the grounds of what the record primly describes as "some vice or misconduct" committed by those who visited it. The 1836 Ordnance Survey Name Books, which is where this detail survives, were compiled as part of a large mapping project and often captured oral tradition and local knowledge alongside geographical data, making this brief entry one of the more tantalising fragments they preserved. What exactly happened at Cuilltilinead, and who Liney was, the record does not say. The prohibition itself is not unusual; clerical authorities periodically suppressed well devotions that they felt had drifted too far from orthodox piety, or where popular gatherings had taken on a festive character the Church found unsuitable. But the bluntness of the phrasing here, and the complete absence of any surviving physical trace, gives this particular site a quality of deliberate erasure.