That a well should be sheltered within one is relatively unusual, and gives this site a quietly distinct character among the many holy wells scattered across the Cork landscape.

The clochan here has an internal diameter of 1.7 metres, making it a compact but purposeful structure, built to enclose and protect rather than to impress. Holy wells in Ireland occupy a complicated position in the country's religious history, often representing a continuity of veneration that predates Christianity and was later absorbed into it. Many fell out of use during the twentieth century as patterns, the traditional gatherings held at such sites on a patron saint's feast day, declined. This well in Farrannagark, however, was recorded as being in good condition and possibly still in active use, suggesting that whatever attachment local people once formed with it has not entirely dissolved.