Somewhere on the grounds of Baroda Stud Farm in County Kildare, roughly 450 metres east-northeast of Connellmore House, sits a holy well that spent at least three decades completely dry. That fact alone sets it apart from the better-documented sacred springs of Ireland, many of which maintained unbroken traditions of pilgrimage across centuries. This one fell quiet, was forgotten by the Ordnance Survey on its maps, and then, in 1968, was restored and blessed back into use.

The well is dedicated to St. Augustine, though locally it appears as St. Austin's Well, the contracted form showing up on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map produced between the first edition of 1838 and the later 1939 edition. Curiously, neither of those bookend maps records the well at all. The pattern of devotion here was also somewhat unusual: while many Irish holy wells served as focal points for patterns, the communal seasonal gatherings involving prayer, music, and circumambulation, no such pattern was associated with this one. Instead, people left tokens at the well, small offerings placed as acts of private petition or thanks, a quieter, more personal form of veneration that has deep roots in Irish folk religion. Clarke, writing in 1968, noted that the well had been dry for the previous thirty years before it was restored to use that same year, its revival apparently deliberate rather than the result of any natural change in the water table.