The well appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, labelled in gothic lettering as "Dutchman's Well", and again on the 1925 edition, this time in italic script. Today it sits in a small north-west to south-east valley, preserved beneath a manhole cover, with a stream running roughly ten metres to the south-west.

The name is thought to have come about through a linguistic slip, or perhaps a gradual corruption. According to local historian Jeffrey, writing in 1979, two daughters of the Richards family of Rathaspick House married two Hanoverian officers in 1802. The German word for German is "deutsch", and it seems the adjective attached itself to the well, was heard as something close to "Dutch", and eventually settled into the anglicised form that appeared on the maps. By the time the scholar John O'Donovan passed through around 1840, whatever ecclesiastical associations the well once held had already been forgotten. Locally, the well is still known as St. Bridget's Well, a name that carries the echo of an older, devotional significance, even though no ritual use of the site has survived. Rathaspick church stands about 250 metres to the south-west, a reminder that this small valley was once part of a wider sacred landscape whose details have largely slipped away.