The water, by one account from 1938, remained clear enough to be drawn for household use. What it no longer receives is the visits it once did, the pilgrims who came seeking cures and left their evidence behind, old bandages tied to the branches of a tree growing at the well's edge, and medals placed nearby. The practice of leaving such offerings at holy wells, known in Irish tradition as "clooties" or rags, was a way of transferring illness symbolically to the site, and here the tree beside Tobar Moling apparently bore these tokens for generations.

The well is dedicated to St. Moling, a seventh-century bishop and abbot associated with Leinster, and its Irish name, Tobar Moling, reflects that long-standing dedication. Caoimhín Ó Danachair noted the dedication in 1958, and the Ordnance Survey Letters, compiled in the early nineteenth century and published by Michael O'Flanagan in 1927, record it as a blessed well beside a burying ground that had been in use up to the 1830s. That proximity to a burial ground is not unusual for Irish holy wells, which frequently occupy ground with layered sacred significance reaching back well before the Christian period. Tobar Moling was one of three wells clustered near Saggart, the others being St. Patrick's Well and Tobar Seanáin, and schoolchildren in Saggart were still recording local knowledge about all three as late as 1938, when their accounts were collected as part of the Irish Folklore Commission's Schools' Collection.

The folklore accounts describe the well as lying about half an hour's walk from Saggart village, situated in a field that was, at the time of the 1938 collection, owned by a family variously recorded as Shield, Chields, or Childes, the spelling shifting between different pupils' accounts. It sits within the parish of Tallaght, and the surrounding ground is marshy, so robust footwear would be sensible for anyone trying to locate it. The well is no longer venerated, and there is nothing to mark it as a place of former significance. The tree that once held the bandages and medals of grateful visitors may or may not still stand.