Known in local tradition as Tobar na Glinn, the well now lies hidden under accumulated stone, its presence marked only by a crudely carved sandstone cross fragment placed on top of the mound, measuring roughly 79 centimetres long and 39 centimetres wide. It is an unusual kind of monument: not a ruin exactly, more a place that has quietly folded in on itself, the water beneath and the devotion above compressed into a single, ambiguous heap of rock.

The setting adds to the sense of layered time. The site sits at the base of an esker ridge, one of the long, winding gravel and sand ridges left across the Irish midlands and west by retreating glaciers at the end of the last ice age. These ridges frequently attracted early settlement and religious activity, partly because they offered dry ground above boggy terrain. A stream runs to the west, following a roughly south-east to north-west course. Some 30 metres to the south-west lies a small circular, flat-topped mound of stones, grass-covered and barely 20 centimetres high, which local tradition identifies as a penitential station, the kind of simple structure associated with rounds or stations of prayer once performed at sacred sites across Ireland. A ringfort and a cashel-based enclosure lie a short distance further to the west-south-west, suggesting that this quiet corner of County Galway was once a good deal busier than it appears today.