That is not a common property for a spring to have, and it points to the particular logic of Ireland's holy well tradition, where a sacred source of water is understood to have agency, memory, and a relationship with the saint who brought it into being. This well is dedicated to St Munchin, and its presence in the village is quiet enough today that it would be easy to pass without noticing it at all.

The folklorist Caoimhín Ó Danachair recorded the well's details in 1955, noting that it appeared on the 1889 25-inch Ordnance Survey map under the name St Munchin's Well. By the time Ó Danachair was writing, formal devotions had ceased, though he noted that rounds were still within living memory, meaning the practice of walking a prescribed circuit around the well in prayer, which was once a common form of veneration at such sites across Ireland. The water was believed to cure a bad stomach and sore eyes. Two legends attached to the well: one held that it moved when it was desecrated, and the other explained its origin, that the saint caused the spring to rise from the ground after being refused a drink there. This second story belongs to a recognisable type in Irish hagiography, where a saint's thwarted need produces something lasting, whether a well, a curse, or a blessing.

Bruree is a small village in the south of County Limerick, perhaps better known as the childhood home of Éamon de Valera, and the well sits in an unassuming spot behind the old village pump. There is no formal visitor infrastructure around it. Anyone looking for it should expect a low-key, easily-missed feature rather than a marked shrine, and should look for the pump as their landmark. The site rewards a slow approach and a little patience with the landscape rather than a quick glance from the road.