There is no elaborate stonework, no votive clutter, no signpost. What remains is a scatter of stones that may once have formed a masonry enclosure, the kind of modest protective surround that was commonly built around holy wells to mark them as places set apart from the ordinary landscape.

Holy wells are among the most persistent features of the Irish countryside, sites where pre-Christian associations with water and healing were absorbed, over centuries, into local Catholic devotional practice. The well at Ballymartin fits a familiar physical pattern: a natural spring given significance by its setting and by whatever traditions once gathered around it. The remnant stones suggest that someone, at some point, took the trouble to define the space, to give the source of water a boundary. Whether that enclosure was ever completed, or whether it fell into disuse before it could be, is not recorded. What survives is fragmentary enough that the masonry origin is described only as possible.