The well is enclosed by roughly set slabs with an opening from which a stream flows southward, a simple and functional construction that gives little away about its former significance.

Its Irish name, recorded by O'Donoghue in 1986, is Toberan Aoine, meaning the well of the fasting. Holy wells in Ireland were typically sites of pattern days, local pilgrimages involving prescribed circuits, prayers, and sometimes periods of fasting or abstinence. The name here suggests that fasting formed a specific part of whatever devotional practice once took place at this spot. Whether those practices were maintained into recent generations is unclear; there is no evidence that the well is in active holy use today. It survives as a spring well in agricultural land, its stones still in place, its stream still running.