What survives is a name: Tobburkissane, recorded in the Civil Survey of 1654 to 1656 as a fixed point along the boundary of the united parishes of Tamplenoe and Duneigore. The Civil Survey was a vast Cromwellian land census, undertaken to catalogue Irish land ownership ahead of redistribution, and its boundary descriptions read like a slow walk through a countryside that no longer quite exists. This particular passage follows a brook between the half-colpe of Ballyhosty and the sixth part of a colpe of Garrankanty, arriving at the well before continuing to a hill called Knockiteane, marked by a ditch running along the parish boundary. A colpe was a traditional Irish land measure, roughly equivalent to the grazing of one cow, and its use here places this survey firmly within an older system of tenure being overwritten by new colonial administration.

By 1840, when the Ordnance Survey produced its first six-inch maps of Ireland, a well was still marked at the north-western corner of Garranacanty townland, sitting on the boundary with Friarsfield and Drumclieve. The location is consistent with where Tobburkissane would have stood, though the cartographers did not name it. By the time the revised edition appeared in 1904, the well had been dropped from the map entirely. Aerial photography from 2005 shows the ground now covered by forestry, so whatever physical trace remained has long since been obscured. The well passed out of practical use, out of cartographic record, and finally out of the visible landscape within the span of about two and a half centuries.