This well in the pastureland of Ballyglass Middle is unusual precisely because it makes no such claim. According to the Ordnance Survey Letters compiled by John O'Flanagan in 1927, the well was never blessed by a saint, yet people still came to it seeking a cure for disease. The authority invoked was something older, or at least less doctrinal, than the standard pattern of Irish folk devotion.

What remains today is very little: a dried-up, oval-shaped hollow, stone-lined, roughly 2.8 metres long and 1.8 metres wide, opening out to the west. It sits around 150 metres west of Ballyglass Castle in County Galway, a tower house whose own history stretches back through the medieval period. The OS Letters, a remarkable nineteenth-century project in which scholars travelled the country recording place names, local traditions, and physical remains for the Ordnance Survey, are often the sole surviving record of beliefs and practices that were already fading at the time of writing. That this well warranted a note at all suggests it still held some local meaning, even as the water itself had long since gone.