Fetch it in daylight, and whatever faith you have placed in it counts for nothing. This is not a site of elaborate religious ceremony; no rounds are performed here, no stations walked. The well does one specific thing, according to the people who used it, and the rules governing it are correspondingly specific.

The well is known as Tobar na hAise or Tobar na hAisil, and it sits in a field that was recorded in the late 1930s as belonging to a Mr Mann, roughly half a mile from the Ardnagragh road, close to a stone wall and surrounded by large rocks. The folklore surrounding it was gathered between 1937 and 1938 as part of the Irish Schools' Collection, a nationwide project in which primary school children recorded local traditions from older members of their communities. The account describes a well visited by people seeking a cure for vomiting, with several reported to have recovered after drinking the water. There is uncertainty about whose blessing the well carries: some attributed it to St Rachel, others to St Patrick, which is itself quietly telling. Holy wells in Ireland often have patron saints whose identities have shifted or blurred over generations, and the ambiguity here may simply reflect how long the tradition had been circulating before anyone wrote it down. One detail remained firm regardless of which saint was invoked: the sick person could not go to the well themselves. Someone else had to make the journey on their behalf, collecting the water in the hours of darkness and bringing it back before dawn.