The site itself is modest enough, a spring issuing between two boulders with a stone and concrete surround, a small stream running away from it into the surrounding land. It is the kind of place that could pass unremarked, were it not for what people once believed happened there.

The legends attached to this well were recorded by the folklorist Caoimhín Ó Danachair in 1960, and they cluster around the well's protective, almost wilful character. The water was said to cure sore eyes, and Saint Brendan, the sixth-century monk and navigator associated closely with the Dingle Peninsula, was believed to have baptised people at the source. A fish living in the well was once taken away; the water around it could not be brought to the boil, and the fish was eventually returned. It has not been seen since. A stone removed from the site was found back in the well the following morning. Most striking is the account of a man who brought his wife and child to witness the water's transformation into wine on the eve of the Epiphany; all three were turned to stone for their curiosity, and the stones, according to the legend, may still be seen. The practice of rounds at the well, a form of ritual circumambulation common at Irish holy wells in which the pilgrim walks a set number of circuits while reciting prayers, was still within living memory when Ó Danachair recorded his account. Rounds here consisted of seven circuits, each accompanied by one Pater Noster, ten Aves, and one Gloria. By 1960, however, the practice had already lapsed.