On the western bank of the River Suck, within the grounds of Durrow House in County Galway, there was once a spring well that served the local area within living memory. Today, no surface trace of it remains. It was lost not to neglect or gradual silting, but to something far more prosaic: road-widening operations that simply removed it from the landscape.

The well appears on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which places its origins, or at least its documented existence, in the mid-nineteenth century. It was still functioning as a working spring well until roughly fifteen years before it was recorded, meaning it remained in active use well into the late twentieth century. Spring wells of this kind were once a fundamental part of rural Irish life, valued for clean water long before piped supplies reached the countryside, and occasionally carrying older religious or folk associations that accumulated around them over generations. Whether this particular well carried any such significance is not recorded. What is recorded is simply that it was there, and then it was not.