It was called Bat's well, a name recorded in 1896 by a writer named Quarry, who also noted the presence of a thorn bush hung with rags beside it. Those rags were votive offerings, small strips of cloth tied to a sacred thorn as part of a practice once widespread at Irish holy wells, where visitors would leave a token in hope of a cure or blessing, sometimes walking the well in a prescribed ritual circuit known as a pattern.

By the time Hartnett visited in 1939 and recorded the site, the well had already fallen into a kind of quiet decline, though some offerings still clung on. The thorn bush and its rags suggest that people were still making the journey within living memory of that visit, even if the full ceremony had faded. Since then, the veneration has ceased entirely and the well has become overgrown, leaving only the odd local name and a cluster of dated observations to indicate what once drew people to this particular junction in the road.