What makes it worth finding is less its modest dimensions than the life still quietly gathered around it: wooden boxes fixed to the surrounding mature deciduous trees, each one holding religious memorabilia left by visitors; a path of paving slabs leading to a wider paved area; a wooden bench positioned as if someone expected you to stay a while. The well itself is defined by a moss-covered drystone wall, fed by a natural spring at its north-north-east, with an overflow area separated from the main chamber by flagstones. Thick vegetation to the east may conceal a further extension of the well area, though this remains obscured.

The folklorist Caoimhín Ó Danachair documented the well in 1955, noting that it was known over a wide area and that rounds, a traditional devotional practice of walking a prescribed circuit while praying, were made there regularly, particularly in May and September and on Saturdays. He recorded it as being called Our Lady's Well by that time. Earlier folklore collected from Tinnatarriff National School gives another name: Tobardomhnaigh, and connects it specifically to the cure of sore eyes. Visitors were said to wash their eyes in the water, drink from it, and leave a relic on a nearby tree. The same school collection preserves a cautionary story about a local farmer's wife who, caught unprepared when her husband returned early from a fair, fetched water from the blessed well in haste; the water, it was said, would not boil no matter how long she left it on the pot. The well's association with Saturdays and with women seeking cures appears consistently across both sources.

The well sits at the end of a forestry trackway, in the north-west corner of a pasture field, so reaching it involves passing through working agricultural land. May and September remain the traditional months of activity, and Saturdays have long been the customary day of visit, which may give some sense of when the site feels most itself. The wooden boxes on the trees are worth examining closely; they function much as the rag trees found at other holy wells do, as accumulations of personal devotion left over time. The overflow area to the north, divided from the main well by flagstones, is easy to overlook but gives a clearer sense of the structure's original engineering. Photographs taken by Ó Danachair in 1954 are held in the National Folklore Collection at UCD and are accessible through the Dúchas digital archive.