Glenkeen Well, once marked by name on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of the area, has left no visible remains at the site. It is, in the most literal sense, a place that now exists primarily as a cartographic memory, the name preserving what the landscape no longer shows.

The well sits, or sat, on the east-facing slope of a river valley in the uplands of North Tipperary, not far from a church and graveyard that still stand to the east. Holy wells in Ireland were typically sources of fresh water accorded religious or curative significance, often associated with a local saint and visited on particular feast days in a practice known as a pattern. Their proximity to early ecclesiastical sites, as here, was common; the well and the church formed a kind of devotional pair, with the water carrying spiritual weight alongside the more formal religious structures nearby. That Glenkeen Well was considered worth naming on the first Ordnance Survey mapping suggests it was a recognised feature of the local landscape in the mid-nineteenth century, whatever its condition today.