What makes this spot quietly odd is a flat stone slab, set on its edge and projecting outward from the hillside, forming a kind of partial gateway or entrance around the mouth of the stream. The stone juts into the opening but sits clear of the streambed, suggesting it was placed deliberately, though for what purpose is now uncertain. The water at the mouth is fast-flowing despite the pool's shallowness.

The Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, produced during the mid-nineteenth century and among the most detailed early cartographic records of the Irish landscape, marked this location as part of a complex of three wells known collectively as Gloragh. Holy wells in Ireland were typically sites of pattern days and devotional practice, where people gathered on a saint's feast day to pray, leave offerings, or walk circuits around the water. At Gloragh, however, there is no evidence of any such activity, no worn paths, no votive objects, no traces of the ritual furniture that tends to accumulate at actively venerated sites. Two of the three wells recorded on those early maps could not be located at all when the site was examined, the ground to the west and south having grown over with dense scrub and undergrowth. Only the north-eastern well remains clearly identifiable.