A ruinous section of stone wall and a scatter of stones are now the only surface signs that a well once existed here at all, tucked just south of the local graveyard. Holy wells were central to Irish devotional life for centuries, with communities gathering at fixed times of year to perform prescribed circuits of prayer, known as "rounds", around the well and any associated stones or markers. At Dromdowney, that practice appears to have died out quietly sometime around the late 1940s or early 1950s, when the last rounds were paid during the month of June.

By the time the antiquarian James Grove White passed through in July 1905, the well was already in a poor way. He recorded that it had been choked up and trampled over by cattle and was in what he described as a very neglected state. Grove White was a meticulous observer of Cork antiquities during the early twentieth century, and his note suggests that even at that point the well had lost whatever formal attention it once received. The proximity to the graveyard is a common pattern in Irish sacred topography, where wells and burial grounds occupy the same quietly loaded ground, each reinforcing the other's association with memory, community, and the boundary between the living and the dead. That the rounds continued here into the middle of the twentieth century, despite the well's condition, points to how durable local devotional custom could be even when the physical focus of that custom had largely ceased to exist.