Known as St. Brittain's Well, it sits roughly two hundred metres south-west of an early ecclesiastical enclosure, the kind of spatial relationship that recurs across Ireland, where a sacred water source and a place of early Christian worship occupy the same modest landscape as near neighbours. The well's current state, covered, piped, and disused, is a common enough fate. What was once a focal point for veneration has been absorbed into the working rhythm of agricultural land.

The dedication links the well to St. Brittain, the figure who gives the nearby village of Kilbrittain its name, "Cill" being the Irish word for a church or monastic cell. The early ecclesiastical enclosure nearby is the kind of site that often marks the original boundaries of an early medieval monastic or church settlement, typically circular or oval in shape, demarcating sacred ground from the surrounding landscape. The well would have sat just outside that boundary, at a remove that is itself traditional. Holy wells in Ireland were rarely inside church precincts; they occupied a threshold position, close enough to the sacred centre to draw meaning from it, but distinct, tied to older habits of water veneration that Christianity absorbed rather than replaced.