A well long considered sacred enough to warrant ritual circumambulation, known as a turas, had fallen so far from local regard that, as one contemporary observer noted, the natives no longer even removed their hats when passing it. That small, telling detail, recorded in the Ordnance Survey Letters compiled by O'Flanagan, captures something that archaeology rarely catches so cleanly: not destruction or abandonment, but the quiet fade of belief in real time.

The well sits in pastureland to the north of an east-west road in Killimor and Boleybeg, County Galway, with a medieval church and graveyard lying just across the road to the southeast. Holy wells in Ireland were traditionally sites of turas, a devotional practice involving repeated circuits of the well or surrounding sacred markers, often performed barefoot, sometimes on specific feast days. The well here was associated with Saint Imor, though by the time it was formally recorded in 1838, that association had become more residual than active. When the site was inspected in April 1984, the well had dried up entirely. What remained was a circular depression roughly a metre across, largely filled in with rocks, with a shallow drain leading northward. No votive offerings, the small tokens of cloth, coin, or personal objects that people traditionally left at holy wells as acts of petition or thanks, were found.

The field around the well has since been converted into a car park serving the adjacent graveyard. A modern Marian Grotto now occupies the spot where the well once stood, a form of continuity of a kind, though one that marks how thoroughly the original site has been absorbed into a different layer of local devotional life.