The lintel that roofs it is inscribed with a cross, and sitting atop the structure is a stone crucifixion slab, roughly sixty by fifty centimetres, on which visitors have added their own small cross scratched into the carved figure. That accumulated marking, one generation of pilgrims leaving a trace on the work of an earlier one, gives the site an odd, compacted quality; it is both an object of veneration and a surface that records the act of venerating.

The well was already old enough to be considered worth naming when the Ordnance Survey mapped it at the six-inch scale in 1842, where it appears as Lady's Well, the Marian dedication typical of many such sites across Munster. Holy wells in Ireland occupy a complicated position in religious history, often representing a continuity of sacred association that predates Christianity and was absorbed into it rather than displaced; the Lady's Well dedication is a common example of that process, redirecting older local reverence toward the Virgin Mary. The stone construction and roofed structure suggest this was never a casual or incidental site; some effort went into making it durable and distinct. It remains, as the record notes, in occasional use.