Holy wells in Ireland are typically outdoor shrines associated with a local saint or with pre-Christian water veneration, visited for healing or as part of patterns, the seasonal devotional gatherings once common across the country. To have one positioned at the heart of a burial ground gives the site a layered quality, folding together the living ritual of the well with the quieter business of the dead.

The enclosure sits in the corner of a field on a gentle south-east-facing slope, roughly subrectangular in shape and measuring approximately 26 metres on its longer axis. The boundary is not uniform: masonry walls define the north-west and north-east sides, while drystone construction, that is, unmortared stonework held together by careful placement rather than binding material, takes over on the remaining sides. Inside there are around twenty recumbent headstones. Some carry inscriptions with twentieth-century dates; others bear no inscription at all. The uninscribed stones are the more ambiguous presence, whether they mark graves whose inscriptions have weathered away or were never cut in the first place is impossible to say from the stones alone.