It is an unassuming structure, barely two and a half metres long and just under a metre high, with a natural spring feeding it and a stream running west from its open side. There are no votive offerings, no tokens tied to nearby branches, none of the small accumulated devotions that tend to mark an active holy well. What remains is the structure itself and the memory of what once happened here.

The Ordnance Survey Name Books recorded it as St John's Well, and it was the site of a pattern day held each year on the 24th of June, the feast of St John the Baptist. A pattern, from the Irish word for patron saint, was a day of communal ritual tied to a local saint's feast, combining prayer, procession, and often more secular festivities. At this well, the ceremonies were particularly associated with healing diseases of the eye, a function common to many holy wells across Ireland, where the spring water was believed to carry curative properties linked to the presiding saint. According to local tradition recorded by FitzPatrick in 1985, the customs had already died out around thirty years before that, placing their disappearance somewhere in the mid-twentieth century. The well did not fall into disuse dramatically; it simply quietened, the annual gathering fading within living memory of those recorded at the time.