No stone, no water, no stairway. The well sits on the southern side of a road opposite Holy Cross Convent, and to pass it today is to pass what appears to be simply a roadside verge. Yet within living memory of the mid-twentieth century, this was a place of active, structured devotion, with a roofed stone structure roughly four feet high and twenty-seven feet in circumference, and a stone stairway still serviceable enough for pilgrims to descend.

Records from 1945 describe the well and its use in some detail. Parishioners gathered here on the 25th of March and the 15th of August each year, the latter being the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin. The August ritual followed a precise order: five rounds were made around or near the well, the word referring to a repeated circuit of a sacred site, a practice common to holy well traditions across Ireland, with a decade of the rosary recited for each circuit. Once the rounds were completed, people bathed their faces or eyes in the well water, drank some of it, and took a portion away with them. The combination of physical action, prayer, and the curative or protective use of the water is characteristic of the pattern, as such a gathering at a holy well was known, blending pre-Christian and Christian elements into a form of localised observance that survived for centuries in rural Ireland.

By the time the site was formally recorded, the physical structure was already intact only in documentation. What the 1940s accounts preserve is less a monument than a memory of practice, the choreography of a ritual that had shaped two days in the annual calendar for an unknown number of generations.