It is an arresting image: a site named for a saint, recorded in gothic lettering on Ordnance Survey maps across more than a century, reduced to a cast-iron disc flush with the ground, indistinguishable from any utility access point in any housing estate in Ireland.

The well appears on both the 1839 and 1941 editions of the OS six-inch map, each time labelled as St. Margaret's Well in the ornate gothic script that surveyors traditionally reserved for antiquities and features of local significance. That consistent notation across two editions, spanning over a hundred years, suggests the well was considered meaningful enough to record, even if no documented tradition of veneration has come down to us. Holy wells in Ireland were commonly associated with healing, patron saints' days, and rounds, the ritual circumambulation of a sacred site, but whatever practices may once have gathered around this particular spring, none appear to have left a trace in the written record. The well sits on a north-east facing slope overlooking Wexford town, a position that would have made it a practical water source long before the housing that now surrounds it was ever built.