A natural spring well that once drew devotional visitors in considerable numbers has been gone for half a century, filled in during roadworks around 1974, leaving no surface trace. The ground above it looks like any other verge or margin, with no marker, no plaque, no residual indent in the earth to suggest that something once rose up here from below.

The well appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1837, annotated as "Site of Sunday Well", and it retained that name on subsequent historical OSi editions. The name itself points to its former function. Station wells, as they are sometimes called, were places of structured religious practice, where people would come on specific days, often a patron saint's feast day or a Sunday, to pray, walk circuits, and sometimes leave offerings. Caoimhín Ó Danachair, the folklorist and scholar who photographed the well and whose images are now held by the National Folklore Collection at UCD, described it in 1958 as a "station well of great estimation", meaning it was regarded with particular reverence within the local tradition. That it was still being documented in the mid-twentieth century suggests the well had maintained some presence in local memory even as active devotional use may have faded. Within roughly fifteen years of Ó Danachair's assessment, it was gone, infilled as part of roadworks, as recorded by Healy in 1975.

For anyone curious enough to look for the spot, the OSi historical map viewer allows you to overlay the 1837 six-inch survey onto the modern landscape, which gives at least a rough sense of where the well once sat within Lissenhall Little. Ó Danachair's photographs, accessible through the Dúchas archive at duchas.ie, show what the well looked like before its loss and are worth seeking out as a record of something that no longer physically exists. There is nothing to find on the ground, but the maps and photographs together make the absence legible.