This one, on the northern side of a road at An Inse Mhór in County Cork, was used to cure animals. Spring water rises from the base of an earthen bank on a south-facing slope, the bank itself half-hidden beneath ferns, briars, and bushes. It is a modest, easily overlooked spot, the kind of place that does not announce itself.

Holy wells occupy a long and layered place in Irish religious and folk practice, functioning as sites of veneration and cure that often predate Christianity and were later absorbed into it. The association with animal healing sets this particular well slightly apart from the more common tradition of wells credited with curing human ailments such as eye complaints or skin conditions. Local knowledge preserved that specific use, even if the details of when or how widely the well was visited in that capacity have not been recorded. The setting, a natural spring emerging at the foot of an overgrown bank beside a rural road, is typical of the quieter end of this tradition, far from the elaborate stations and patterns associated with better-known sites.