That claim was tested and upheld as recently as the dry summer of 1955, when the well continued to flow. By 1957, a writer called Adams could still describe it with confidence, tucked just below the summit on the south side of the hill. Decades later, a survey team went looking for it and could not find it at all.

The Hill of Mael is not simply a well-site. The summit carries a cashel, a type of stone ringfort enclosed within a dry-stone wall, and this cashel sits inside what appears to be a large trivallate hillfort, meaning a hillfort defined by three concentric earthen banks or ramparts, stretching roughly 370 metres across from east to west. Running across the hill there is also a possible prehistoric field system, suggesting the landscape was being worked and divided long before the early Christian period that St Brigid's cult is associated with. The layering of a holy well, a medieval or early medieval cashel, an Iron Age or earlier hillfort, and a field system on the same prominence is the kind of accumulation that tends to mark a place of long and varied significance.

The well's current state is uncertain. Whether the difficulty in relocating it reflects overgrowth, topographic change, or simply the limits of a single visit is unclear. What is recorded is that it lies below the southern summit of the hill, and that in the mid-twentieth century, at least, it was both visible and running.