It exists in the record largely because of a single reference, a note by Mc Dix published in 1897 in the Irish Builder, a Victorian trade and architecture journal that occasionally preserved details of structures already on their way out of living memory. The well was described as lying close to the demolished remains of Cheeverstown Castle, itself a vanished structure in County Dublin. No date has been established for the well, and no visible surface remains have been recorded since.

The association with Cheeverstown Castle gives the site at least some historical grounding, even if both features are now essentially gone. Castle wells of this kind were functional necessities, supplying households, livestock, and sometimes defensive garrisons, and they were often among the last elements of a castle complex to disappear from a landscape. The fact that Mc Dix thought the well worth mentioning in 1897, even as he noted the castle was already demolished, suggests it retained some physical presence at that time, or at least enough of one to be remarked upon. The castle itself is catalogued in the Archaeological Survey of Ireland under reference DU021-024001-, but the well's own entry carries the stark assessment: no visible surface remains, date uncertain.

For anyone visiting the Cheeverstown area south-west of Dublin, this is a site that demands a particular kind of patience. There is nothing to see in the conventional sense. The value here is in the landscape itself and in knowing that somewhere beneath or within it, a water source once served a now-vanished fortified house. Compiled by archaeologist Geraldine Stout, the record stands as a reminder of how thinly some parts of the past are preserved, a single line in a Victorian journal being all that separates a place from total erasure. If you are visiting to follow up on the castle reference, the Archaeological Survey catalogue entry is the most useful starting point for understanding what once stood nearby.