This well near Saunderscourt carries the name of the country's patron saint, yet by the mid-nineteenth century it had already lost, or perhaps never possessed, any such devotional life.

The well sits in a gentle fold on a south-east facing slope that looks out over the north-western shore of the inner Wexford Harbour. It is a modest, carefully made thing: a circular shaft roughly 1.15 to 1.2 metres in diameter and 0.7 metres deep, lined with drystone walling, which is dry-laid stonework using no mortar, and approached from the north by a short stone-lined passage with steps leading down to the water. It appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1839 and 1841, labelled in the gothic lettering that the OS conventionally reserved for antiquities and sites of note. That typographic choice implies some recognition of its age or significance, which makes the scholarly verdict all the more interesting. Around 1840, the antiquarian and Irish-language scholar John O'Donovan, who travelled extensively recording place names and local lore for the Ordnance Survey, noted the well by name but observed plainly that it was not regarded as holy by local people. The name, it seems, had outlasted whatever meaning once lay behind it, if any meaning ever did. It is possible the saint's name attached to the well through association with a nearby place name or an older topographical memory rather than through any sustained tradition of pilgrimage or prayer.