It was once one of two adjacent holy wells, a pairing that was not unusual in rural Ireland, where sacred water sources often clustered together, sometimes sharing a patron saint, sometimes not. By the time the folklorist Caoimhín Ó Danachair recorded the site in 1955, only one of the two was still known to local people, and even that surviving well had shed most of what once gave such places their social and spiritual weight.

Ó Danachair, writing in 1955, noted that the well was called simply "the blessed well" by those who still knew of it, and that there were no devotions being observed. Devotions at holy wells, which traditionally took the form of ritual circuits, prayers, and offerings made on a saint's feast day, were once a fixture of Irish rural life, particularly at wells dedicated to major saints. This one, according to local information gathered by compiler Denis Power, is associated with St Brigid, one of Ireland's most widely venerated saints. The absence of any active pattern day or pilgrimage practice by the mid-twentieth century suggests the well had already slipped out of communal religious life well before Ó Danachair visited, though the name "the blessed well" indicates some residual recognition of its former significance.

The well lies on the western side of a stream, set in flat agricultural land, which means there is little in the surrounding landscape to guide the eye towards it. Both wells recorded in the archaeological survey are described as no longer apparent, so a visitor should not expect a stone-lined structure or any obvious built feature. What you are looking for, if you find yourself in this part of Limerick, is more likely a damp hollow in a field, perhaps a subtle greening of the grass where water rises close to the surface. Access would depend on landowner permission, as the site sits in private pasture. The feast of St Brigid falls on the first of February, Imbolc in the old calendar, which is traditionally when wells under her patronage would have seen visitors, though there is no indication that any such gathering takes place here now.