It does not announce itself above ground. Standing in the field, you would not know it was there.

The well appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1839 and 1925, each time labelled in the distinctive gothic script that surveyors traditionally reserved for antiquities and features of note. The name itself, Lady's Well, belongs to a widespread Irish tradition of springs associated with the Virgin Mary, often sites of pattern days, rounds, or other devotional practices carried out on fixed dates in the local calendar. Such wells were typically focal points of community ritual, their water credited with curative properties. What is quietly unusual about this particular example is that no record of any such veneration exists. The name was considered significant enough to preserve across nearly a century of mapping, and yet whatever practice or belief it once reflected, if any, has gone entirely unrecorded. The well sits on a gentle east-facing slope, unremarkable in the landscape, invisible at ground level beneath the grass.