It sits in a naturally wet area at the south-eastern foot of a steep hillock, the kind of damp, slightly marginal ground that holy wells in Ireland have occupied for centuries. Holy wells are springs or water sources associated with a saint or pre-Christian veneration, often marked by simple stone surrounds and visited for healing or blessing. This one is easy to miss precisely because it is so understated.

The well is a circular shaft, roughly 85 centimetres wide and 80 centimetres across, sunk to a depth of about 1.3 metres and lined with small granite stones. There appears to be a stone base to the shaft itself. Most intriguing is a single circular cut slab that has been wedged into the shaft near the base, shaped with one flat face and one domed face. How old it is, who placed it there, and what purpose it originally served are questions the site does not answer easily. Cut stone of this kind implies deliberate craft rather than casual field clearance, and its position wedged near the base of the shaft suggests it was placed with some intention, whether as a functional seal, a votive element, or something else entirely. The surrounding demesne, with its long history of landscaping and estate improvement, makes it difficult to say with certainty how much of what survives reflects an ancient tradition and how much reflects later intervention.