The ground gives nothing away. No stone surround, no votive offerings, no worn path through the grass. The only evidence that something was once considered sacred here is cartographic: the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map marks it plainly as a holy well, adding the note that it was already dry at the time of survey. A site that had lost its water before it was ever formally recorded, yet was still considered worth marking.

The well sits to the west of what is known as St Gobnait's stone, a nearby monument associated with one of the most venerated saints of Munster. Gobnait, whose principal site is at Ballyvourney, a few miles to the west, is closely woven into the landscape of this part of Mid Cork, and her name attaches to a scatter of local features, stones, and water sources across the area. Holy wells in Ireland were typically places of pattern, meaning a localised devotional gathering held on a saint's feast day, often involving circuits of the well and prayers for healing. That this particular well had already dried up by the time the early Ordnance Survey mapped it suggests its active religious life may have faded considerably before the nineteenth century, even if the memory of it was still clear enough to the local community that surveyors thought to record it.