Tobermalug, in County Limerick, carries almost nothing. When the folklorist Caoimhín Ó Danachair visited and recorded the site in 1955, his conclusion was blunt: "there are no traditions" associated with the well. That near-total silence is itself unusual, and it sits alongside another loss. By the early twentieth century, a small stone structure known as an ulaidh, a type of votive altar or ritual cairn associated with pattern devotions at holy wells, had already been destroyed on the site, dismissed at some point as a meaningless heap of old stones.

The account of that destruction comes from Lynch, writing between 1911 and 1913, who described the ulaidh as "much dilapidated" even before it was cleared away. The word ulaidh refers to a low, rough altar, often built up from fieldstones, at which offerings or prayers might be left during the pattern day associated with a well. Once such structures fall out of active use, they tend to look exactly like what the people who demolished this one thought it was: a jumble of loose rock in a field. What remains today is a slight depression in the ground, measuring roughly 3.3 metres north to south and 2 metres east to west, with several small boulders still visible, set into the earth at its edges. Whether the depression itself is the remnant of the well structure or simply a feature of the naturally uneven terrain is not entirely clear from the surviving record.

The site sits at the base of a south-east facing slope in poorly drained pasture, the kind of ground that tends to be boggy underfoot even in dry weather, so boots are advisable. The surroundings are open, with good views in most directions, which gives the place a certain exposed, unhurried quality. There is no formal access, no signage, and nothing to mark it as a site of any significance. What a careful visitor will find is a shallow hollow in rough ground, a few stones, and the particular atmosphere of a place that has been quietly forgotten, its ritual life ended and its stories unrecorded.