That translation, recorded in the Ordnance Survey Letters compiled by O'Flanagan in 1927, gives this otherwise unassuming well a quality that sets it apart from the landscape around it. The name does not appear to be decorative. Wells in Irish tradition were frequently understood as thresholds, points where the visible world thinned and something else became accessible, and a name invoking the soul rather than a patron saint or a local family places this one in an older register entirely.

The well appears on both the 1838 and 1920 editions of the six-inch Ordnance Survey maps, written in the distinctive Gothic script that cartographers of the period reserved for antiquities and features of cultural note. That it was considered worth naming so carefully across two separate survey periods suggests it held some local significance well into the twentieth century. Hydrologically, it is one of three natural springs that together feed a short tributary flowing in a north-east to south-west direction before joining a larger stream to the south-west. Whether the other two springs were ever named or regarded with similar attention is not recorded. On the current digital mapping it has been reduced to the label "Open Well", a practical description that discards the older Irish name entirely.