The well is dedicated to Saint Fionán, and the town's own name preserves the same figure, "Cill Fhionáin" meaning the church of Fionán. Yet despite this double presence in the landscape, the traditions that once attached to the well have largely faded from living memory.

The folklorist Caoimhín Ó Danachair recorded what remained in 1955, drawing in part on an earlier Ordnance Survey Letter, one of the nineteenth-century field reports compiled by antiquarians working for the Survey in the 1830s. By the time of the first Ordnance Survey map in 1840, the well was already marked as "Finnane's Well", and the 1928 edition recorded its Irish name, "Tobar Fhionáin". The Survey letter noted plainly that the well was still in existence but that no stations were being performed at it. Stations, in this context, refers to the practice of ritual circuits, prayers repeated at fixed points around a holy well, often on the feast day of the associated saint. The Ó Danachair record suggests that even by the mid-twentieth century no tradition seemed to have survived beyond the name itself.

The well is described as a small, clear running spring, and the road that passes nearby is still known locally as the Well Road, which offers a practical starting point for anyone trying to locate it. Holy wells in Ireland can be elusive; they are frequently unmarked, set into a field boundary or tucked against a ditch, and this one appears to have no formal signage or maintained enclosure. Kilfinnane itself is a small market town in the Ballyhoura foothills, and local enquiry along the Well Road is likely the most reliable approach. There is no particular season that would make the site more accessible, though the drier months make fieldwork across rough ground more straightforward.