A stone-faced path leads up to it, and the well itself is enclosed by a low semicircular wall, roughly 0.8 metres high, roofed over with a single flat slab. A stone-covered drain, about 0.3 metres wide, carries off the overflow. On either side of the well, two upright slabs have been propped in place, each carved with a simple Latin cross. The first is the smaller of the two, measuring 0.45 by 0.38 metres, and it carries a crack across its face. The second, slightly taller at 0.7 metres, tapers towards its base. Together they give the site a quality that is more intimate than ceremonial, as though the devotion that shaped it was always personal rather than institutional.

The well is also known as St John's Well, a dedication that places it within a widespread tradition of early Christian sacred springs, many of which were associated with the feast of St John and the midsummer rituals that attached to it. O'Leary, writing in 1991, noted the presence of five crosses at the site, suggesting that the two remaining slabs may once have had company. Casey, writing in 1983, recorded that "rounds" were performed here up to forty years before that date, meaning into the 1940s. Rounds, or "patterns", were a form of ritual circuit, typically made on the saint's feast day, involving prayers recited while walking a prescribed path around or between the sacred features of a site. That this practice survived at Raffeen well into living memory, in a relatively modest and unadorned setting, speaks to how quietly persistent these local traditions could be, long after the more famous pilgrimage sites had drawn the attention of observers and reformers alike.