Known as Tempodesha, meaning ‘God’s house’ in Irish, the well appears on modern Ordnance Survey maps just northwest of where the church supposedly stood. The site name itself is all that remains on paper; ‘Tempodesha (Site of)’ reads the notation, a cartographic ghost of what once may have been.

The antiquarian G.H. Kinahan documented this spot during his survey work in 1889 and 1890, noting with characteristic Victorian brevity that whilst the well called Tempodesha still existed, any church that might have stood there had long since vanished without trace. His observations formed part of a broader cataloguing effort of megalithic and ancient structures across the Barony of Kilmacrenan, published in the Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland.

Holy wells like this one pepper the Irish landscape, often serving as the sole physical reminder of early Christian sites that have otherwise melted back into the earth. Whether Tempodesha well was originally associated with a wooden church, a stone structure, or perhaps just an open air place of worship, we can’t know for certain. What remains is the well itself; still marked, still remembered, still carrying its sacred name more than a century after Kinahan first recorded it.