It is an easy thing to walk past without a second thought, yet the site carries a name that reaches back far further than its tidy modern stonework: Tobar Éinne, the well of Saint Enda.

Holy wells in Ireland were places of localised veneration, often associated with early Christian saints and used for pattern days, prayers, and rounds of devotion that blended pre-Christian water-worship with later church practice. This one is dedicated to Saint Enda, the sixth-century monastic founder closely associated with the Aran Islands, whose name in Irish, Éinne, survives intact in the well's proper title. About a metre and a half to the south-south-west of the spring sits a small stone cairn, topped with a modern cross. The cairn is the kind of modest focal point that appears at many such sites, offering a place to pause or leave an offering, separate from but clearly in dialogue with the well itself. The reference to this site in O'Flanagan's early twentieth-century writings suggests it was noted and recognised as significant well before it received its current enclosure.

The well sits directly opposite a church, which gives the site an unusual doubling: two forms of sacred space facing one another across a narrow road, one institutional and one sprung from the ground itself.