The well is known locally as Tobar na Seacht nIníon, the Well of the Seven Daughters, and it is easy enough to pass without giving it much thought. What is harder to overlook, once you know it, is what is no longer there.

The Ordnance Survey Letters, compiled in the nineteenth century as field notes accompanying the first detailed mapping of Ireland, record that the well once held a flagstone called Leac na Seacht nIníon. A leac of this type functioned as a cursing stone, a flat stone used in ritualised imprecation, turned or struck while calling down harm on an enemy. The practice was well documented across parts of the west of Ireland. The letters compare this particular stone directly to Leac Féichin, another such stone in County Galway associated with the early medieval saint Féichín of Fore. At some point before the survey was made, local clergy had the stone removed and buried underground, the letters noting only that this was done for what they called "special weighty reasons". The phrase does a good deal of work. It suggests that the stone was still in active use, that its use was considered serious enough to warrant suppression, and that whoever buried it preferred not to say more than was necessary. The well itself survived, revetted with stone in the manner typical of Irish holy wells, and the coins visible in the water today speak to a continuing, if quieter, tradition of votive offering.

The well lies approximately 120 metres north-north-east of the church at Kanrawer, sitting on the boundary between townlands in a shallow valley. The buried flagstone, if it remains where the clergy left it, has not been recorded as having been found.