The site of Saint Doran's Well at Askinvillar is no longer visible at ground level, which makes it a quietly puzzling place: a site of early ecclesiastical significance that has left almost no trace above ground, yet whose presence was clearly substantial enough to be mapped, annotated, and remembered.

The saint to whom the well was dedicated remains unidentified, which is itself unusual. Many Irish holy wells are associated with obscure local figures whose names survived through oral tradition and pattern days even when documentary evidence collapsed, but Saint Doran has slipped beyond recovery. The name of the site may offer a clue: scholars have suggested a derivation from the Irish words meaning water, which would point to a place named for its spring rather than for any particular holy person. By the time the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch map in 1839, the well was marked by a yew tree, a long-lived species frequently found at sacred and burial sites across Ireland. At the same period, there was also a bullaun stone associated with the well. A bullaun is a large stone with one or more rounded depressions, often interpreted as early medieval mortars or as sites of ritual use, and they appear frequently at ecclesiastical locations throughout the country. Both the yew and the bullaun stone have since disappeared or become obscured. Approximately fifty metres to the south-south-east, within a graveyard, lies the remains of an early church site, suggesting this was once a modest but functioning religious complex on the mountain foothills.