The one at Lisheennaheltia, close to the east bank of the Yellow River in County Galway, offers almost none of that. What remains is a blocked-up pool of water with a small drain running toward the stream, set in low-lying boggy ground. The well itself has effectively vanished into the landscape.

Old Ordnance Survey six-inch maps record it within an enclosed oval tree copse, roughly forty metres on its longer axis and thirty metres across, which once marked the site clearly enough to be worth noting. Holy wells were, and in many places still are, focal points for local devotion, often associated with a patron saint and visited on a particular feast day, sometimes as part of a ritual circuit known as a "round". The place-name Lisheennaheltia contains the Irish word lissín, a diminutive of lios, meaning a small enclosure or fort, hinting at a layered history in which sacred and secular geography overlapped. Extensive field clearance has since removed whatever physical features once distinguished the site, leaving only the copse outline on old maps and that single, silted drain as evidence that something was once here and considered worth preserving.