The well, known locally as Tober an amhrán, Irish for the Well of the Song, has been quarried out entirely and leaves no visible trace at ground level. The surrounding field retains its name, parc an amhrán, the field of the song, which is now the only marker of what was once considered a place of some significance.

The well appears in the Civil Survey of 1654 to 1656, a mid-seventeenth-century land census compiled under Cromwellian administration, where it is recorded as 'a Well called Toburneglory', noted as a boundary landmark within the parish of Mortlestowne. This name may correspond to the later form Toberanouraun, though the connection is uncertain. Whatever its older ceremonial or folkloric status, the well eventually found a more practical purpose: from the 1930s through to the 1960s, a hydraulic ram was inserted into it to pump water up to Kedrah House. A hydraulic ram is a device that uses the momentum of flowing water to force a portion of that water uphill without any external power source, a technology that suited remote rural properties well into the twentieth century. In the 1960s the stream was fenced off, and at some point after that the well was quarried away altogether.

What lingers is the mermaid. Local tradition holds that the well was the spot where a mermaid would sit and sing, which explains both the name of the well and the name of the field around it. In Irish folk belief, mermaids were not straightforwardly benign figures; they could be omens or lures as much as curiosities. That a well would be the site of such a story rather than a coastal inlet or a lake shore is itself quietly odd, and the name preserved in the field long outlasted the physical feature it once described.