What marks it out is not any grandeur but rather a kind of careful, accumulated attention: somebody, at some point, took the trouble to enclose this modest source of water in a rough rectangular frame of pebble and stone, and to leave it there. The hawthorn overhead is significant too; across Ireland, hawthorns growing beside water sources were long associated with veneration, their branches used as sites for offerings and cloths tied in petition or thanks.

The well belongs to a broad category of sites, once found in almost every parish in Ireland, where a natural spring was understood to possess curative or sacred properties. Such places attracted patterns, the ritual visits made on a saint's feast day, involving prayer, circumambulation of the site, and sometimes immersion or drinking of the water. The enclosing stonework at Glebe, a roughly built rectangular box of local material, is a typical form of modest intervention: not monumental, just enough to mark the spring as set apart from the ordinary landscape. A low wall of roughly-set pebbles to the north-east suggests further, incremental effort over time. The site is no longer in active holy use, which places it among a large number of wells that fell out of practice during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as patterns declined or local memory of dedication faded.