That proximity is part of what makes this small site curious: three sacred or ritual features clustered within a short stretch of landscape, each distinct, each pointing to a long-running local devotion that has left only the quietest of physical traces.

The well is most likely the one described in the Ordnance Survey letters compiled by O'Flanagan, published in 1927, which noted a spring 'near the old church' where a pattern was held on Garland Sunday in honour of Saint Laan, the patron of the parish. A pattern, in Irish tradition, is a local pilgrimage or assembly held on a saint's feast day, typically involving prayer, procession, and sometimes more festive elements; the word derives from 'patron'. Garland Sunday, also known as Domhnach Chrom Dubh or Reek Sunday, falls on the last Sunday of July and was one of the most widely observed popular festivals in the pre-Famine calendar. The well itself is enclosed by a rectangular drystone wall measuring roughly 3.5 metres north to south and 2.65 metres east to west, open to the south, with a small adjoining enclosure on the east side of similar construction. Drystone walling of this kind uses no mortar, relying entirely on the careful fitting of stones, and such enclosures around holy wells were common across the west of Ireland as a way of marking and protecting the sacred source.