Diverted long ago into a field drain, its presence is now indicated by a single alder tree, a species that tends to colonise wet ground and has long been associated in Irish tradition with water sources. Without that marker, there would be little to suggest that this was once a site of religious observance at all.

Holy wells in Ireland were typically the focus of a pattern, or patron, a local gathering held on the feast day of the saint to whom the well was dedicated. These occasions combined prayer and ritual with something closer to a fair or festival, and they were common across the country well into the eighteenth century. The pattern at Boley had already died out by around 1790, according to the Ordnance Survey Name Books, the nineteenth-century field records compiled by surveyors documenting local placenames and antiquities. By the time those surveyors were asking questions, the well itself had apparently been absorbed into the working landscape of the farm, its water redirected for practical use. The site lies roughly 400 metres south-south-east of Coolinarrig graveyard, which suggests it once sat within a cluster of features, well, burial ground, perhaps a church, that would have formed a recognisable sacred geography in the local area.