That much is certain. Beyond that, the record is quiet. Holy wells are among the most persistent features of the Irish landscape, places where pre-Christian reverence for water sources was gradually absorbed into Christian practice, the springs and pools rededicated to local saints and woven into patterns of pilgrimage known as "rounds". Clare alone holds dozens of them, some still visited on fixed feast days, others long since forgotten by everyone except the townland itself.

Tullycreen's well falls, for now, into the category of the recorded but undescribed. It has been noted as a monument, assigned its place in the landscape, but the details that would bring it into focus, its patron saint, the nature of any patterns or cures historically associated with it, the physical form of the well itself, remain unavailable. That silence is not unusual. Many such sites exist at the edge of documentation, known to local tradition long before any surveyor arrived, and sometimes known to local tradition long after the paperwork catches up.