This one, near Taghmon in County Wexford, appears to have accumulated none of that. It sits quietly on a gentle south and south-east facing slope, a small stone-lined opening barely wider than a hand-span, and the historical record contains no indication whatsoever that anyone ever treated it as sacred.

The well takes its name from a nunnery that once stood about 75 metres to the north-west, the remains of which survive as a separate recorded site. Both the 1839 and 1925 editions of the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps mark and name it consistently as Nunnery Well, which tells us the association with the religious house was at least well enough established by the mid-nineteenth century to be worth recording. The well itself is modest in construction: a lined opening measuring roughly 35 centimetres by 25 centimetres, and about 30 centimetres deep. Some ten metres to the east, a small north-to-south stream begins, fed presumably by the same ground water, with dense scrub pressing in around it.

What makes the site quietly curious is precisely the absence of the ritual layer that clings to so many Irish wells. Veneration of holy wells, which typically involved prayers, the tying of rags or offerings to nearby trees, and annual pattern days, was common enough across Wexford and the wider country to leave traces almost everywhere a well had any ecclesiastical connection at all. Here, despite the name, despite the proximity to a religious site, there is simply nothing of that kind recorded. Whether the nunnery's association was purely practical, a water source rather than a spiritual one, or whether any devotional practice was simply never documented, the well sits beside the headwaters of its small stream without ceremony.