That is, in a sense, the point. The well has been filled in, leaving no surface trace on the wet grassland of a north-west-facing slope outside Dundrum in County Tipperary, and what remains is essentially a place where something used to be, marked only by its relationship to a field boundary and a large pond immediately to the south-east.

The well's name connects it to the O'Dwyers, a Gaelic Irish family who held the nearby castle, the remains of which sit roughly sixty metres to the south-east. That proximity is the main reason the well is thought to have been associated with the castle rather than being a purely devotional or communal source, though the two functions were not always distinct in medieval Ireland. Wells attached to fortified residences were practical necessities, but they could also carry ritual significance, and the line between a domestic well and a holy well was sometimes blurred depending on who used it and how. The O'Dwyers were a notable Tipperary family, and their name survives here in a site that has otherwise been entirely absorbed back into the landscape.

The slope offers open views to the west and north, with higher ground rising to the south. A visitor standing on that wet grassland, looking toward the castle site, would be looking at the fuller picture of what this corner of the townland once held, even if the well itself leaves nothing visible to anchor the eye.