The Well of Kilcolman, as it was known, drew people on Good Fridays to perform stations, a practice common at Irish holy wells in which pilgrims moved in a prescribed circuit around the site, often reciting prayers at each stopping point. Today, the natural spring has been absorbed into agricultural infrastructure, its water redirected through a field drain running south-west to join other drainage ditches. Nothing about the present arrangement suggests that anything of devotional significance ever happened here.

The well does not appear by name on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1838 or 1920, which gives some sense of how quietly it existed within the local landscape. It is only through the OS Letters of 1838, compiled as part of the same survey effort and later published by O'Flanagan in 1927, that the well's name and its Good Friday use are recorded at all. The entry is brief, little more than a sentence, but it preserves the detail that mattered to those who used it. The well sits about twenty metres to the north-north-west of a graveyard that contains a ruined church, placing it within a cluster of features, spring, burial ground, and ecclesiastical ruin, that would have been unremarkable in early Christian Ireland but is now largely invisible to a passing visitor.