The spring at Stonecarthy in County Kilkenny represents a different fate. Sitting at the bottom of a west-facing slope, tucked into the north-east corner of a small walled enclosure and surrounded by marshy ground, it is a natural spring well now choked with weeds, its religious significance long since dissolved into the soft ground around it.

The well bears the name Tobar Ciarán, meaning Keeran's Well, a dedication to Saint Ciarán, one of several early Irish saints who carried that name. By the time the Ordnance Survey letters were being compiled in 1839, the well had already lost whatever ritual life it once held. The surveyor noted plainly that it "is held in no sanctified veneration at present," a phrase that suggests not recent abandonment but a forgetting so complete that even the memory of its former use had faded from local knowledge. The well lies roughly 225 metres south-west of a medieval church in Stonecarthy East, and that proximity points to an older arrangement in which the spring and the church would have formed part of the same sacred geography, each reinforcing the other's significance. The church survived as a ruin; the well survived as a weed-filled hollow.