That much is certain. The details, for now, remain elusive. Holy wells are among the most quietly persistent features of the Irish landscape, places where pre-Christian water veneration blurred into Christian practice so gradually that no single authority ever quite claimed them. They tend to be modest: a spring, a stone surround, perhaps a rag tree hung with offerings left by visitors seeking cures or intercession. Drumellihy's well belongs to this long tradition, even if its particular story has yet to be fully recorded.

Clare is unusually rich in such sites. The county's limestone geology, part of the same karst system that produces the Burren's extraordinary surface, means that springs and seeps emerge in unexpected places, often with a quality of appearance that made them seem, to earlier generations, genuinely sacred. Many Clare wells are associated with local saints whose cults predate the formal structures of the medieval Church, and patterns, the annual gatherings held at a well on a saint's feast day, were still a living practice in some parishes into the twentieth century. Without more specific detail about Drumellihy's well, it is not possible to say which saint, if any, is commemorated here, or whether a pattern day was ever observed.

What can be said is that the well's recorded existence places it in a catalogue of sites considered significant enough to warrant protection and study. For a feature that might easily be mistaken for an ordinary field spring, that recognition carries its own quiet weight.