What was recorded at this site was a spring well marked by an upright stone slab bearing an incised cross-and-circle, a simple but deliberate form of sacred marking found at early Christian sites across Ireland. Cross-slabs of this kind were often placed at wells to formalise their devotional character, distinguishing a source of water that people were already inclined to venerate. The tradition associated with this particular well was described, even at the time of its recording, as no more than vague.

The scholar Caoimhín Ó Danachair noted the site in 1960, locating a spring well with just such a slab. By the time the Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey was compiled by J. Cuppage in 1986, the picture had already begun to blur. The precise location Ó Danachair indicated held no trace of a well, and no cross-slab could be found. A well does appear on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey map roughly a hundred metres to the west, and this may be the one in question, but by the time of more recent investigation it had been enclosed in a modern concrete tank. No cross-slab survives there either, and, perhaps most telling of all, no local knowledge of one remains. The physical object and the memory of it appear to have disappeared together.