A spring that was once the focus of annual religious observance on the 16th of October was, when inspected that year, overgrown with vegetation and being drawn on for ordinary domestic use. It is a quiet kind of disappearance, the sort that happens to many holy wells across Ireland, and it makes this one in Co. Kilkenny worth pausing over.

The well sits in a marshy hollow, roughly 33 metres east of a stream and about 65 metres north-west of the ruined Clara church and its graveyard, both of which were also dedicated to St. Colman. The physical structure is modest but deliberate: a natural spring enclosed on three sides by low stone walls, the whole thing covered by a single large flagstone. The enclosure measures just 1.2 metres by 0.95 metres, and the walls stand 0.75 metres high. Writing in 1905, the historian William Carrigan described it as a fine holy well and recorded its local name. The enclosing walls were repaired at some point in the 1950s, suggesting the site retained at least practical importance into the mid-twentieth century, even if its religious significance was already fading. Holy wells in Ireland were traditionally sites of pattern days, local gatherings on a saint's feast day that combined prayer with communal ritual, and this one would have drawn people on the 16th of October each year in honour of St. Colman, whose cult is associated with several early medieval church foundations across Leinster and Munster.