It no longer has the elaborate stonework or ceremonial basin that more celebrated holy wells retain; what remains is essentially a pool of water held in the natural face of the hillside, worn down enough that it reads, at first glance, as little more than a damp hollow in the ground. An agricultural laneway passes immediately to its north, and a stream runs just outside the graveyard wall nearby, so the whole setting has an quality of water converging quietly from several directions at once.

Holy wells dedicated to St Patrick are scattered across Ireland, many of them associated with early Christian sites where a natural spring was given devotional significance, often continuing practices that may predate Christianity entirely. At Glengoole, the well sits in close relationship with the church and graveyard beside it, accessible through a stile set into the graveyard wall on its south-western side. The higher ground to the south and east shelters the site, while the slope opens out to broad views over lower ground to the north-west and west, the kind of aspect that gives the place a quietly exposed feeling despite its modest scale.

The well is reached through the stile in the graveyard wall, rather than from the laneway to the north, which keeps the approach tied to the ecclesiastical ground rather than the working farmland on its boundary. It is poorly preserved, and anyone coming to the site should expect something understated, a pool rather than a monument, with the landscape doing most of the work.