What it surrounds is a well, and more specifically, the well's clear pool, enclosed within a modest structure that frames the water as something set apart, something worth defining in stone against the surrounding landscape.

Wells enclosed or otherwise demarcated in this way are a recurring feature of the Irish countryside, where the boundaries between the practical and the devotional were rarely firm. A constructed enclosure around a well's pool suggests the site carried some significance beyond the purely functional, whether as a source of water considered to have curative or spiritual properties, or simply as a local landmark warranting protection. The north Kerry region is well documented for such features, and the site at Tubrid More was recorded as part of C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995 through Brandon in association with FÁS. That survey catalogued a landscape dense with early remains, and this small enclosure, modest as it appears, was considered worth including among them.