At the northern foot of an east-west esker, one of the long gravel ridges left behind by retreating glaciers after the last Ice Age, a small spring wells up inside a D-shaped stone enclosure no wider than a person's outstretched arms. The structure is modest almost to the point of invisibility: a mortared wall roughly a metre high, a gap just wide enough to enter, and a small statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary set into the southern side. A compact rectangular stone altar stands a short distance to the north-northeast. Nothing about the scale of the place announces itself, yet the care taken in its construction suggests it has mattered to people for a long time.

By 1837, when the Ordnance Survey Letters recorded local knowledge across Ireland, the well was already being described as something that had "formerly" been frequented as a holy well, meaning even then it carried the sense of a practice receding into memory. Holy wells in Ireland are typically natural springs associated with a saint or sacred figure, visited for healing, blessing, or the observance of patterns, which were seasonal rounds of prayer and ritual circumambulation. The dedication here to Bride, an anglicisation of Bríd or Brigid, places the site within a widespread tradition of wells associated with Saint Brigid of Kildare, one of Ireland's patron saints, whose cult was particularly strong across the county that bears her name. The present stonework, with its mortared walls and altar, reflects later interventions that kept the site in a kind of active devotional use even as the older pattern traditions faded.