Built into an east-facing slope on the western bank of a stream, the well is sheltered by a low rectangular stone enclosure, roughly a metre high and two metres wide, with an off-centre opening just large enough to crouch through. On top of this modest shelter sits a triangular stone carved with an incised cross rising over a raised circular boss flanked by wings, with flowers in raised relief on either side. Additional rough crosses have been cut into the boss and along the lower section of the stone, suggesting that the carving was not a single act but something added to over time, by different hands and with different intentions.

The inscription at the base of the triangular stone gives the structure an unusually precise origin. When it was read in 1985, it recorded that the well had been erected by Thomas Seaward Esquire of Seafield in 1833. That date places the construction firmly in a period when the improvement and formal marking of holy wells was not uncommon among Protestant and Catholic landowners alike, sometimes as an act of local patronage, sometimes as an assertion of presence on the landscape. The Seafield connection ties the site to a named local estate, and the relatively polished carved stone above the well opening suggests that Seaward commissioned work of some ambition, even at modest scale. The inscription itself is now illegible, worn past reading by nearly two centuries of Irish weather, so what was once a clear statement of authorship has become something closer to a rumour in stone.