It goes by two Irish names, Tobar na Sceach and Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh, and it belongs to a tradition of curative wells that once drew people across rural Ireland on specific days of the week or year, usually in connection with a local saint or older custom. This one was a Sunday well, visited on Sunday mornings, and its water was believed to heal sore eyes.

By the time the folklorist Caoimhín Ó Danachair documented it in 1960, the devotions had already ceased. He described it as a small well in a little glen where no religious practice remained, only the memory of what had been done there. What makes this well slightly more arresting than the hundreds of others recorded across Kerry is the legend attached to it. Pilgrims walking to the well were said to have been warned, by mysterious signs and voices, of robbers lying in ambush along the route. The warning itself has no named source, no attributed saint, no fixed moral. It simply exists as a detail at the edge of the record, unexplained. Whether the story served as a practical caution once passed between communities, or accumulated around the site for other reasons, nobody now says.