There is no pattern day recorded here, no votive offerings, no worn path suggesting generations of barefoot pilgrims. Whatever devotional life this place once had appears to have quietly lapsed, leaving behind something that sits at an ambiguous threshold between the sacred and the simply geological.

What elevates it above an unremarkable trickle is a name. O'Donoghue, writing in 1986, records that the well was also known as Tober na nDuanairidhe, meaning the well of the poets. Holy wells in Ireland were frequently associated with particular saints or with curative properties for specific ailments, but a well named for poets belongs to a less familiar tradition, one that hints at the older Gaelic world in which poets occupied a formal and legally recognised social role, somewhere between bard, jurist, and keeper of genealogical memory. Whether the name reflects a local story about a specific gathering of poets, a patron figure, or simply a longstanding association with a particular family or place, is not recorded. The name itself is what survives.