Holy wells, dedicated to saints and used for centuries as places of popular devotion, prayer, and occasionally healing, were a fixture of the Irish rural landscape long before and well after the arrival of formal church structures. This one, dedicated to St Patrick, has fared less well than most.

The well appears as 'Patrick's Well' on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1837, which means it was sufficiently well known and recognised at that point to be worth marking by the surveyors who were systematically recording Ireland's physical and cultural landscape for the first time at that scale. Its position is telling: it sits at a kink in a field boundary, that slight irregularity in an otherwise straight line that often signals something older underneath, a feature that earlier farmers worked around rather than through. It occupies a relatively elevated spot within what is now Robswalls Park, and at some stage the spring itself was incorporated into the fabric of a field ditch, a fate that effectively camouflaged it within the working agricultural landscape.

The site is within Robswalls Park, and the well is described as very overgrown, so anyone hoping to locate it should expect some searching along field boundaries rather than finding anything formally marked or presented. The kink in the boundary line is the most useful navigational clue. Because this is a spring, the ground immediately around it may be wetter than the surrounding area even in drier months, which can help with identification. There is no known surviving stonework or formal structure to look for, just the ditch, the overgrowth, and the faint topographical logic of a high point where water still rises.