The 1839 and 1925 six-inch editions both mark it in the townland of Gortins, Co. Wexford, with the quiet authority of a place that was, at those moments, considered worth recording. Today, the ground where it should be is marshy, the stream that runs roughly fifteen metres to the north and west carries on regardless, and there is no visible structure of any kind. The name has survived in local memory, but the knowledge behind it has not.

This is a holy well, or was, or was believed to be. Holy wells in Ireland were typically small natural springs invested with religious significance, often associated with a saint and visited on a particular feast day for prayer, ritual, or the healing of ailments. The dedication here to Saint Margaret suggests that kind of layered local devotion, though which Margaret is honoured, and what traditions once attached to the site, has been lost. The cartographers of the 1830s and the surveyors who updated their work in the 1920s both considered it a real and nameable feature of the landscape. Whatever structure may once have marked the well, a stone surround, a covering, a small basin, none of it remains above ground in the low boggy ground of the stream valley.