That absence is itself quietly telling. Holy wells in Ireland were, for centuries, sites of pattern days, votive offerings, and localised ritual, often surviving long after the official Church had lost patience with them. This one, by the time it was recorded, had already slipped out of that living tradition entirely.

Its proper name is Tobar Mac Duach, a dedication that connects it to Saint Mac Duach, also known as Colman Mac Duach, the seventh-century founder of Kilmacduagh monastery in south County Galway. What remains of the well appears to be a natural spring enclosed within a small rectangular drystone enclosure, a construction method using stones laid without mortar, measuring roughly two metres long and just under two metres wide. The reference to O'Flanagan's 1927 survey suggests the site was already in a degraded state by that point, tucked about seventy metres north of a byroad and difficult to locate even with directions.

The well's condition makes a visit more of an exercise in looking carefully than in finding anything visually dramatic. It lies within a small wood, which means the enclosure is likely obscured by root growth and leaf litter. The drystone structure may still be partly traceable beneath the vegetation, but nothing about the site announces itself.