Two limestone steps lead down to an opening less than a metre high, its interior brick-lined within the outer stonework, creating a chamber that is compact enough to feel almost private. Above the well, set into a concrete niche, stands a statue of the Blessed Virgin, watching over what lies beneath.

Holy wells occupy a particular place in Irish religious life, blending pre-Christian reverence for water sources with Catholic devotion in a way that was never quite standardised or suppressed. They tend to be maintained not by institutions but by local communities, through small, ongoing acts of care: the clearing of weeds, the placing of flowers, the renewal of offerings left by those who came to pray or petition. This well at Ballycannon follows that pattern. The stonework is kept in good order, and the well is adorned with flowers, signs of continued attachment to a place that sits, almost incidentally, at the edge of a public road.

The structure itself is modest in its dimensions, with an opening measuring roughly 84 centimetres high and 65 centimetres wide, just enough to stoop through and look in. That combination of careful construction and intimate scale is typical of wells that have been tended over generations, where the built fabric has been renewed and adapted without ever growing grand.