The name gives a clue to its older significance: "tobar" is the Irish word for well, and wells of this kind were frequently focal points of local devotion, where people would leave small offerings or tokens as acts of prayer or petition. What is quietly notable here is precisely the absence of such things. No votive offerings were visible when the site was recorded, a detail that speaks either to long disuse or simply to the particular moment of the visit.

The well itself is formed largely from natural rock outcrop, with large boulders incorporated into its structure. The U-shaped enclosing wall opens to the north, where the two steps descend to the water. From here, a small stream runs northwest, fed by the spring, threading out into the surrounding farmland. The combination of natural geology and human shaping is characteristic of these sites across the west of Ireland, where communities worked with the existing landscape rather than imposing something entirely constructed upon it.