The well itself is gone, its source tapped and redirected, and there is no visible surface trace left to suggest that this was once a site of quiet but persistent local devotion. It is the kind of erasure that happens gradually, through agricultural practicality rather than any deliberate act of suppression, and the result is a place that carries significance without any of the usual markers.

When the Ordnance Survey recorded the well in 1840, it was described as a spring about three feet wide, held sacred by local people and visited for stations, a form of prayer involving set rounds of prayers at designated points, on the eves of Sundays and on the 24th of June, the feast day of St. John the Baptist. The survey note adds, with a certain precision, that no pattern, meaning the festive gathering that often accompanied holy well devotions, was held there. By 1955, the folklorist Caoimhín Ó Danachair found the well dry and the devotions lapsed, though he recorded that it had previously been visited on Saturdays and on the 24th of June. Ó Danachair also photographed the site that year, and his images are held by the National Folklore Collection at UCD. Folklore gathered from Ballinard National School adds another layer: the well was known locally as St. John's Well, shared a farm with a Mass-bush, a tree or shrub associated with outdoor Mass-saying during the Penal era, and its water was believed to cure sore eyes. A cautionary story attached to the site tells of a man who cut the bush growing over the well and brought it home, only for it to fill his house with smoke without burning, after which he returned it and it remained there undisturbed.

The site sits on a steep west-facing slope in pasture, with a church and graveyard lying roughly 200 metres to the north-east. There is nothing to mark the well's former location beyond the pump-house and trough, so anyone visiting would need to approach with that expectation. The Dúchas Schools' Collection entry and Ó Danachair's photographs, both accessible through the duchas.ie digital archive, offer the clearest picture of what the site once looked like and what was remembered about it within living memory of its active use.