The place is locally regarded as a holy well, and for generations it was. Every Good Friday, people gathered here for a pattern, the traditional Irish term for a devotional assembly at a sacred site, typically involving circuits, prayers, and sometimes offerings left at the water. That practice ended sometime in the 1930s, and the well has not been visited for its original purpose since. What remains is a pool, a boulder, remnants of rough stone walling along one bank, and a slope of rough pasture that falls away sharply toward a cliff to the east.