No stonework marks it, no votive offerings hang nearby, no worn path leads a pilgrim to its edge. What remains is essentially a cartographic memory: the well was recorded as St Patrick's Well on the Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1838, and that notation is now among the few traces of it that survive.

Holy wells dedicated to St Patrick are scattered across Ireland in considerable numbers, reflecting centuries of popular devotion that operated largely outside formal church structures. Such wells were typically visited on pattern days, local feast days tied to the well's patron saint, where prayers, rounds of the well, and sometimes overnight vigils formed the ritual. Whether the Ballinvally well once drew such observance is not recorded. What the 1838 map confirms is that it was considered significant enough, at that point, to be named and marked by the surveyors who were then methodically documenting the Irish landscape for the first time at that scale. By the time anyone came to look for physical remains, there was nothing to find.