That domestic appropriation is part of what makes it interesting: a site that was, by various accounts, a place of cure and of circumambulatory prayer, reduced at some point to a practical convenience for the big house.

The well's name, or rather its names, hint at a more layered past. Writing in 1905, the historian Berry noted that the Ordnance Survey Name Books recorded it as "Aunia's Well, formerly resorted to for cures," and he speculated that this was likely "Tobar-na-Faithnidhe," the well of the warts, the Irish word fauny relating to wart-like growths. Wart wells were a recognisable category of holy well in Ireland, where sufferers would wash the affected skin and sometimes leave a rag or coin as an offering. By 1934, Bowman was recording it under a different name entirely, Tobar Aine, or St Anne's Well, and noting that the rounds, the traditional circuits of prayer performed by pilgrims at such sites, had been discontinued for roughly fifty years. Grove White, writing in the early twentieth century, had already documented the pump house built over the well to supply water to Dromore House. Each name and each account catches the well at a different stage of forgetting.