The proximity of a holy well to such a burial ground is not accidental. Children's burial grounds in Ireland, sometimes called cilliní, were used for unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground, and they frequently appear alongside sites already considered sacred or liminal. The well here carries the name of St Patrick, and for centuries it drew people to this particular corner of the Galway landscape on a very specific day of the year.

When the site was recorded in May 1986, the well retained the natural rock enclosure that had always defined it. A wall was erected around it sometime after that inspection, adding a more formal boundary to what had previously been shaped entirely by the land itself. The annual pilgrimage took place on the 15th of August, a date that falls on the feast of the Assumption but which, at many Irish holy wells, also carries older layers of observance associated with Lughnasa, the late-summer gathering season. Roughly 190 metres to the west-northwest lies a bullaun stone, also linked locally to St Patrick. Bullaun stones are boulders or outcrops bearing one or more rounded depressions, likely worn by grinding or ritual use, and their association with early Christian saints is common across Ireland. The clustering here, well, bullaun stone, and children's burial ground within a short radius of one another, suggests a locality with a long and layered pattern of use.