Three steps lead down into a block-built surround, its walls running roughly three metres north to south and two metres east to west, open to the north. The construction is recent, but the tradition it protects almost certainly is not.

Holy wells occupy a particular place in Irish religious and folk life, serving for centuries as sites of pattern days, devotional rounds, and the tying of votive offerings, cloth or ribbon, to nearby branches. They sit at the intersection of pre-Christian water veneration and early Christian practice, and many are associated with local saints whose feast days once drew significant gatherings. The well at Clooncon follows this pattern in its essentials: a natural water source enclosed and maintained, given formal shape even if that shape has been renewed over time. The fact that someone thought it worth rebuilding in modern block-work suggests a community that still regarded the site as worth preserving.