It is recorded as a holy well, regarded as one still, yet the concrete surround and overflow trough for cattle drinking tell a more practical story. The well sits in the fosse of a ring fort, that is, the ditch encircling an early medieval enclosed settlement, a location that layers one kind of ancient significance on top of another.

Folklorist Caoimhín Ó Danachair documented the site in 1955, drawing on earlier sources including the Ordnance Survey Letters, which noted that the well was "but seldom frequented" even then. The 1840 Ordnance Survey map already names it Lady's Well, a dedication typically associated with the Virgin Mary and common across Ireland in wells that once served as focal points for pattern days, those communal gatherings of prayer, music, and pilgrimage held on a patron saint's feast day. By the time Ó Danachair was writing, formal devotions had ceased entirely. The well had been built up with concrete, given an overflow trough, and absorbed into the rhythms of agricultural life, though local regard for its sacred character had not fully dissolved.

The well is recorded under the Sites and Monuments Record reference LI047-068005-, which places it within the wider ring fort complex. Anyone visiting the Effin area with an interest in the overlap between early Christian practice and prehistoric settlement would find this the kind of detail worth seeking out. The well will not announce itself dramatically; its interest lies precisely in its ordinariness, a spring in a ditch, modified and repurposed, carrying a name from the 1840s and a status that outlasted the rituals once performed beside it.