It measures roughly 61 centimetres high, 78 centimetres wide, and 74 centimetres deep, opens to the west, and has mud at its base. That detail, the mud without the water, is what makes it quietly arresting. Whatever once seeped or pooled here has long since gone, yet the site carries the memory of something more active.

Local tradition holds that this was once a holy well, one of the thousands of springs and water sources across Ireland venerated over centuries for their perceived healing or spiritual properties. The detail that lingers is the mention of crutches left here at one time. Votive offerings at holy wells, particularly items associated with physical ailment or recovery, were a widespread practice in Irish folk religion, often persisting well into the modern era alongside or in tension with formal Catholic observance. The leaving of a crutch implied the well had done its work, that someone had arrived infirm and departed without needing it. That the niche at Kilmore received such offerings suggests it once had a local reputation for curative power, even if the source of water that sustained that reputation has since dried up or retreated into the rock.