Holy wells in Ireland were typically modest enclosures built to protect a spring thought to carry healing or sacred properties, often associated with a local saint and used for votive practice across centuries. This one is dedicated to Saint Faelan, and what makes it quietly puzzling is not just its ruined state but the question of where it actually is, or rather, where it always was.

The cartographic record introduces a small mystery. On the 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, the rectangular structure is shown in one location, but the name "St. Faelan's Wells" appears about 40 metres to the south-east, placed beside two spring wells roughly 15 metres apart, each feeding into a small stream. By the 1933 edition, the name has shifted to align with the rectangular structure, and only one well seems to be acknowledged. When archaeologists inspected the site in August 1984, they found a single well, defined by a collapsed drystone enclosure measuring 1.6 metres square and standing to around 0.9 metres in height, with an opening to the south-west. A partially roofed channel, about 1.8 metres long, ran from the opening towards the larger stream. Scattered around a sycamore tree just to the north-west was a quantity of limestone rubble, including one large upright slab. This material is thought to have originated from a church located approximately 140 metres to the north-east, a ruin with which the well was probably associated in some functional or devotional way.

The site sits in wet ground beside a stream, and the vegetation and marshy conditions would make it easy to overlook entirely. The sycamore tree, surrounded by its scatter of displaced limestone, is likely the most visible marker on approach. The well structure itself is largely collapsed, but the outline of the enclosure and the channel leading away from it remain legible to anyone who knows what to look for.