For a feature that was, within living memory, considered genuinely important by local people, its absence from the official cartographic record gives it an odd, elusive quality, as though it exists primarily in the landscape of community knowledge rather than on paper.

The well sits within a rectangular stone trough measuring 2.35 metres by 1.75 metres, and just 65 centimetres deep, from which a small stream runs northward toward the Cashen river. Its local name, Moin an Bhradáin, translates roughly as the bog or ground of the salmon, and that word, bradán, is potentially significant. The salmon carried deep symbolic weight in early Irish religious and mythological tradition, associated with wisdom and sacred water, and its appearance in a place name connected to a holy well may point toward an older layer of devotional or ritual meaning beneath what became, in later centuries, a localised Christian site. Holy wells in Ireland were typically visited on pattern days, often the feast day of a patron saint, with prayers, offerings, and circumambulation of the site forming the core of the practice. Whether that fuller pattern-day tradition operated here is not recorded, but the well was described as very important to the locality until roughly the 1990s, which means its significance faded only recently, well within the memory of older residents of the area.