There is no enclosure, no carved stone basin, no votive offerings caught on a nearby thorn bush. What remains is a large damp circular patch of ground, ringed by trees and bushes, in a gravel pit on farmland near Ballyboughal. The absence of any structure makes it easy to miss entirely, and that is precisely what most people do.

The well is dedicated to St. Canice, known in Irish tradition as Kenny, a sixth-century monastic figure associated with Kilkenny and Aghaboe. Holy wells dedicated to him appear in several parts of Ireland, each carrying local curative traditions, and this one in Hollywood Great was believed to relieve ailments of the head and throat. It was recorded as St. Kenny's Well on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1837, which places it firmly in the cartographic record of the period. A more personal account survives in the Dúchas Schools' Collection, the folklore archive gathered from Irish schoolchildren in the late 1930s: a pupil from Damstown School noted that the well sat on Mr. Wilson's farm, that it had a good spring, and that it never went dry. That last detail, pride in a well's constancy, was a common mark of distinction in a landscape where water sources could be seasonal. According to researchers including Ó Danachair writing in 1958 and Healy in 1975, the well carried an active devotional reputation, though it is no longer venerated.

The site is on private farmland, so access depends on the landowner's permission. There is nothing to see in the conventional sense; the well has no kerbing, no holy stone, none of the material culture that survives at more frequented sites. What a careful visitor will notice is the persistent dampness of the hollow, the slightly greener growth around it, and the way the surrounding trees close in to give the spot an accidental seclusion. The spring itself, as that schoolchild noted decades ago, does not dry up.