In low-lying pasture on the north side of a stream in County Limerick, what was once a site of considerable pilgrimage has left no visible surface trace. The whitethorn tree that once marked its location, noted by folklorist Caoimhín Ó Danachair in 1955, may or may not still stand nearby. The well's absence is, in its own way, the most telling thing about it; places like this survive through use, and when the rounds stop, the briars move in.

The well carries several names. The Ordnance Survey of 1840 recorded it in the townland of Ballinveara as Tobar Righ and Domhnaigh, a name translating roughly from Irish as the Well of the King of Sunday, or in Latin, Fons Regis Sabbathi. The surveyors noted, with a certain editorial coolness, that stations were still being performed there "by the uneducated." Stations, in this context, refers to the practice of completing a set circuit of prayers at prescribed points around a holy site, a form of penitential devotion common at Irish holy wells. The well was particularly associated with curing sore eyes, and folklore collected from Shountrade National School recalls people travelling from as far as Cork and Clare to pay their rounds before sunrise on Sundays. One account describes a woman from Clare who had lost the sight of one eye being cured after washing it with the water. The well's patron is said to be St. Ita, the sixth-century abbess of Killeedy in west Limerick, one of the most venerated early Irish saints. The school folklore also notes that at some point the well fell into neglect, was swallowed by briars, and was then cleared and revived by local effort, after which visits resumed. A sick cow, the account adds, found the well during the years it was forgotten and drank from it, and recovered.

Ó Danachair described it in 1955 as still occasionally visited, but current access to the site is unclear and there is no visible structure to orient a visitor. The Dúchas Schools' Collection folklore, recorded at Shountrade National School and accessible online at duchas.ie, gives the fullest surviving account of what the well once meant to the communities around it, and is worth reading before or instead of making the journey across the field.