No stone surround, no worn hollow, no trickle of water marks the spot. The well is present only as an absence, its location inferred rather than seen.

Holy wells in Ireland were typically natural springs or seepage points venerated over centuries, often associated with a patron saint and visited on a particular feast day in a ritual known as a pattern. This one was recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which places its compilation in the mid-nineteenth century, and it appears to have still been a legible feature on the ground as late as the third edition, surveyed around 1930. At some point after that, whatever physical form it held, whether a simple hollow, a stone-lined basin, or merely a damp patch of ground, disappeared entirely, leaving no visible surface trace. The well sat 85 metres north of a local church, the kind of proximity that was deliberate rather than coincidental; sacred wells and Christian ecclesiastical sites were frequently located close together, each lending the other a layer of significance.

A modern shrine stands roughly 60 metres to the north-east of where the well once was, suggesting that the impulse to mark this ground as meaningful has not entirely faded, even as the original feature has gone. The devotion, in other words, outlasted the thing that prompted it.