Folklore gathered from local schoolchildren in the late 1930s, and preserved in the National Folklore Collection's Schools' Collection, records that the original well had long been closed and its exact site forgotten, while a replacement well some distance away quietly inherited the name. That kind of quiet substitution, a sacred spring effectively starting over under the same identity, sits at the more curious end of holy well history.

By 1837 the well was already marked on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, situated within the demesne lands of Kenure Park, whose house stood roughly 400 metres to the south-southwest. It lay on the east side of the avenue close to a small river running through the park, and schoolchildren in the 1930s recalled flat stone steps descending into a hollow, a wooden and wire door that anyone could open, and a drinking vessel left there for passers-by. Some local accounts suggested the original well had stood on the west side of the avenue, directly opposite. The well was associated with a nearby monastery and appears to have been connected to the wider cluster of medieval remains in the immediate area, including castle ruins 100 metres to the north and the remains of a medieval church and graveyard only 55 metres to the east. It also served a more prosaic function as a domestic water supply for Kenure House itself, according to Skyvova's 2005 study. By 1958, the folklorist Caoimhín Ó Danachair recorded that it was no longer venerated as a holy well.

Today the well sits within the open green space of the St Catherine's housing estate, south of the stream that once ran through the Kenure Park demesne. A single tree marks the hollow where the spring rises. The well was enclosed in concrete breeze blocks during the 1980s for safety reasons, and several of those blocks were removed in 2013. There is no formal access arrangement, and the setting is now entirely domestic rather than parkland, which can make the medieval church ruins just to the east feel all the more unexpected when you come across them.