This one, tucked into a farmyard on a west-facing slope in Misterin, Co. Wexford, appears to have skipped all of that. It bears the name of Ireland's patron saint, mapped twice in gothic lettering on the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheets of 1839 and 1925, and yet by the time anyone thought to ask about it, the veneration, if there ever was any, had already vanished without a trace.

The antiquarian John O'Donovan, one of the most diligent recorders of Irish place-names and local tradition in the nineteenth century, noted the site around 1840 and could find no evidence that it had ever been treated as a sacred site. That absence is itself worth pausing over. Wells dedicated to Saint Patrick are common across the island, and many became focal points for patterns, the communal gatherings of prayer and sociability held on a saint's feast day. This one seems never to have gathered that kind of attention. Today the well is a rectangular basin defined by a drystone wall, the gaps in the stonework filled with concrete, fed by a stream or field drain coming down from the hill above. The name endures on the maps long after whatever meaning it once carried, if it carried any, has gone.