What makes Toberlauva quietly compelling is not its scale, which is modest, but the continuity of practice it represents. Horseshoes, religious medals, and small statuettes were still being left here by visitors in the early 1990s, tied to trees or laid on a dead trunk that crossed the well, following a tradition of votive offering that belongs to the long Irish custom of the holy well. These are places where pre-Christian water veneration and Catholic devotion became so thoroughly entwined over centuries that separating them is neither easy nor particularly useful.

When surveyors visited in August 1991, the well was enclosed by a U-shaped drystone wall, a simple unfixed construction of dry-laid stone, roughly 0.9 metres north to south and 0.8 metres east to west, set flush with the ground and open to the east. Local people confirmed that stations still took place there, the term referring to a circuit of prayer performed at fixed points around a sacred site, a practice known across Ireland at holy wells. There was no formal path, though offerings hung from a nearby tree to the south. The well is associated with the curing of ailments of the hand. Within a year the site had been restored under a Social Employment Scheme: the original drystone structure was built upon with mortared stone, the dead tree trunk removed, and the votive objects relocated onto the new wall. A gravel path was laid around the well, with an unsurfaced track approaching from the north. The name itself, Toberlauva, appears consistently across the 1838 and 1915 editions of the six-inch Ordnance Survey maps, suggesting the site carried local significance well before any modern documentation of it.