At Cloghmochuda, near Killarney in County Kerry, such a stone sits beneath a tree, and the water in its hollows has never been regarded as merely rainwater. Locally it was known as Tubber na Cuddy, or Cuddy's Well, and the depressions themselves were said never to dry out, even in high summer. The explanation offered by tradition is unusual even by the standards of Irish holy wells: the hollows are the knee-prints and forehead-print of a monk who fell asleep on the rock while following a robin, and who slept there, undisturbed, for a hundred years.

The monk, according to folklore collected from Clochar na Trócaire School in Killarney, had come from the abbey on Innisfallen, the island monastery in Lough Leane. He followed a robin to the tree above the stone, fell into an enchanted sleep, and woke to find everything changed. Returning to the abbey, he was recognised only through a story that had been passed down about a monk lost a century before. The robin is central to the site's ritual life as well as its legend. Pilgrims arriving before sunrise on the mornings leading up to 16th May, a practice recorded as continuing until at least 1951, brought bread for songbirds and watched the tree for the robin's appearance. If it came, the request was granted or the cure given; if it did not, that absence carried its own grim significance. One account from the folklore collection records a woman who made the rounds on three consecutive mornings but never saw the robin, and who died shortly afterwards. The prescribed ritual was precise: pilgrims brought plain water to replenish the stone's hollows after using them for blessings, left rags on the overhanging palm tree, recited the Rosary while walking the rounds, and were not to bring the water vessel home with them. One tradition held that the robin was in fact a priest, and the rags left on the tree were altar linen. The old path to the stone was at some point enclosed within Kenmare Demesne by a grand jury order, with a key held by one Irwin, caretaker at Deenagh Lodge, though the pilgrimages continued regardless. By the 1960s, when researcher Healy documented the site, people were still visiting, and a small improvised altar with coins and broken statues had been fixed to the tree above the stone.