It was recorded, given a position relative to a known landmark, and then lost again, overgrowth having swallowed whatever physical trace once marked it out. That quiet erasure gives the site an odd quality: it exists on paper, it presumably exists in the ground, but no one has been able to confirm it in recent decades.

The sole historical reference comes from a 1904 source, cited simply as Day, which placed the well in this corner of West Cork and associated it with the area known as Glannafeen. Holy wells in Ireland were typically springs or water sources venerated over centuries, often pre-Christian in origin and later absorbed into Catholic devotional practice, with patterns, small pilgrimages held on a saint's feast day, being the most common form of observance. Whether this particular well ever had a strong pattern tradition attached to it is not recorded. What is clear is that by the time anyone thought to document it systematically, it had already become difficult to pin down with any precision.