The southern side of the enclosure is left open, and a gate to the north marks the entrance. It is an unassuming arrangement, but one that has been maintained well enough to suggest the site has not been entirely forgotten.

The antiquarian John Windele, writing in 1897, recorded the well as dedicated to the Holy Virgin and gave its Irish name as Tubber Muirra, from the Irish tobar, meaning well or spring. The Marian dedication places it within a broad tradition of pre-Reformation sacred springs that were often rededicated to the Virgin Mary as Christianity absorbed older patterns of veneration attached to water sources. A Church of Ireland building stands to the south of the well, a proximity that is not unusual in the Irish landscape, where ecclesiastical sites of different periods and denominations frequently cluster around the same ancient focal points. The well is noted as still being in occasional use, which places it among a modest number of holy wells in the county that have retained at least some living connection to their original purpose.