Somewhere around 1875, a local blacksmith in Graney, County Kildare, took it upon himself to destroy a carved stone that had stood beside a holy well for an unknown but presumably considerable length of time. The stone was called 'the Greek Stone', a name that raises more questions than it answers, and with its destruction those questions became permanently harder to resolve. The well itself survived, and survives still, known locally as Mary's Well and kept clean by people who continue to visit it.

The well sits close to the site of a former nunnery, a proximity that almost certainly explains its dedication and its persistence as a place of local devotion. Holy wells, which in Ireland were often associated with pre-Christian water veneration later absorbed into Christian practice, tend to endure where they are actively maintained, and Mary's Well is clearly one of those. The carved stone is documented by Fitzgerald, writing in the Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society in 1891, who recorded both its name and its fate. Whether 'the Greek Stone' bore actual Greek lettering, some form of ornamental carving that struck observers as foreign or classical in character, or something else entirely, the record does not say. That ambiguity is now irretrievable, which makes the blacksmith's decision in 1875 feel like a particular kind of loss, the sort that happens not through neglect but through a single, unremarkable act.