The 1917 Ordnance Survey six-inch map records a "Holy Well (Site of)" here, but by the 1947 revision the cartographers had updated their understanding, replacing that label with "Bile (Site of)". A bile is a large ancient tree held in veneration, a category of sacred landmark that appears across early Irish tradition, and the distinction matters. What the earlier surveyors had interpreted as a well was almost certainly a pool of water collecting in a hollow of the tree's trunk, a small but telling confusion between two kinds of sacred site.

The tree itself had already died by the time the 1917 map was printed, with local tradition placing its end in the early 1900s. It stood within an ecclesiastical enclosure, just to the east of a children's burial ground, the kind of layered sacred landscape that accumulated over centuries in rural Ireland, each element, enclosure, burial ground, venerated tree, occupying its own distinct but neighbouring space. Nothing visible survives at the spot today. What is more unusual is what happened when the tree went. According to local information, the sanctity associated with it did not simply lapse; it transferred northward to a nearby ash tree, continuing a living tradition at a new location rather than disappearing with the original bile.