Dry and densely overgrown, it survives now more as a feature of the landscape than as a functioning sacred site, the kind of place that is easy to walk past without recognising what it once was.

Holy wells in Ireland were traditionally associated with healing and with the intercession of particular saints, and many remained active pilgrimage sites well into the modern era, attracting local people on pattern days tied to the liturgical calendar. This one, however, seems to have been losing its congregation long before it lost its water. It is possibly the site recorded as Tubbereentoneanodrough Well by the local historian Grove White, writing between 1905 and 1925, who noted that it was believed to possess the power of curing diseases, but added, with a certain dryness, that only few resort to it to try its effects. The name itself, in Irish, likely encodes some older dedication or description of the well, though the precise meaning has not been definitively recorded. By the time Grove White wrote, the well's reputation was already fading, its curative powers apparently more theoretical than practised.